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21st Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Collection of minute hydrobes (Ecrobia truncta)

This is one of dozens of shells of the same species found during a trip to cape cod in august 2023. It is a small shell in the family Hydrobiidae, reaching only a few mm in length. Photo taken with an Inskam digital microscope.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 08.2023
Date Uploaded: 10.2023
Photo Location: Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 02667, Massachusetts, United States of America
Copyright: © Gray Tuttle