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Zooplankton Clipart

Zooplankton clipart pictures small drifting organisms with transparent bodies, shells, fins and ribbon shapes. A stylized arrow worm with blue fins and an outline of a fish larva with a yolk sac show two different forms.

Choose among 50 drawings for a marine food web, a microscope journal or an ocean vocabulary sheet. Give delicate features room on the page, and use a pair of contrasting forms to prompt observations about shape.

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50 illustrations

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Slender translucent arrow-worm illustration with blue side fins and a forked tail.

Stylized Arrow Worm With Blue Fins

Rounded translucent rotifer with a fringed opening and visible golden internal shapes.

Saclike Rotifer Illustration

Small translucent crustacean beneath a rounded blue-and-gold shell.

Shelled Crustacean Larva

Orange larva with a central dark eye, two long horns and feathery appendages.

Horned Barnacle Larva Illustration

Pink oval comb jelly with a broad opening and rainbow-colored comb rows.

Pink Comb Jelly With An Open Mouth

Golden water-flea illustration with a large dark eye and long curved front appendage.

Golden Water Flea With A Curved Snout

Green-and-gold rotifer illustration with two broad fans of fine hairs.

Green Rotifer With A Ciliated Crown

Blue-and-orange copepod with long curved antennae and a narrow segmented tail.

Long-Antennaed Copepod

Rounded orange plankton character with a red central eye and feathery limbs.

Single-Eyed Plankton Character

Blue-green crab larva with large eyes, small claws and a segmented tail.

Stylized Crab Larva With Small Claws

Orange crab larva with large dark eyes and a long upward-pointing spine.

Spiny Crab Larva

Lavender copepod with two pink egg sacs beside its segmented body.

Copepod With Paired Egg Sacs

Oval blue comb jelly with iridescent rows and two long branched tentacles.

Comb Jelly With Branched Tentacles

Translucent water flea with a dark eye and golden rounded eggs inside its body.

Water Flea Carrying A Brood

Clear blue barrel-shaped animal with repeated pale bands and a fringed opening.

Barrel-Shaped Planktonic Tunicate

Pale blue-green water flea with a pointed shell and a cluster of pink eggs.

Triangular Water Flea With A Brood Chamber

Curled fish embryo with a large eye inside a round egg.

Fish Embryo In An Egg Line Art

Translucent-looking sea snail with a small shell, large eyes and a broad swimming fin.

Swimming Sea Snail Line Art

Clear blue jellyfish with a rounded bell and four long curling tentacles.

Blue Jellyfish With Four Tentacles

Curved golden crustacean with a large dark eye and many segmented limbs.

Golden Pelagic Amphipod

Spiral-shelled snail suspended beneath a cluster of round bubbles.

Bubble-Raft Snail Line Art

Pale purple juvenile jellyfish with eight forked radial arms.

Young Jellyfish With Eight Lobed Arms

Blue rotifer with a long lower spine and two ciliated head fans.

Spiny Blue Rotifer

Pink shrimp-like krill with long antennae and a segmented curved body.

Pink Krill Illustration

Small curled larvacean inside a rounded blue transparent enclosure.

Larvacean In A Transparent House

Tiny fish larva with a large eye and a round yolk sac below its head.

Fish Larva With A Yolk Sac Line Art

Blue-green comb jelly with two large clear lobes extending below its oval body.

Lobed Comb Jelly

Broad translucent crustacean larva with long antennae and widely spread legs.

Flat Lobster Larva Illustration

Small spiral-shelled larva with two broad fringed swimming lobes.

Shelled Mollusk Larva With Ciliated Lobes

Slender blue crustacean with long antennae, fine legs and a broad tail fan.

Blue Shrimp-Like Plankton

Small octopus with large eyes and curling sucker-lined arms.

Young Octopus Line Art

Orange seed-shrimp illustration with two rounded shell halves.

Orange Ostracod With An Open Shell

Transparent golden water flea with long bristled antennae.

Clear Water Flea With A Large Eye

Hollow pink tube-shaped colony covered in repeated small rounded units.

Pink Pyrosome Colony

Curving chain of transparent blue barrel-shaped animals.

Chain Of Clear Blue Salps

Translucent blue sea angel with broad winglike fins and orange internal shading.

Sea Angel With Open Swimming Wings

Pastel sea butterfly with a spiral shell and broad translucent swimming wings.

Shelled Sea Butterfly

Pale purple comb jelly with broad curled lobes and rainbow comb rows.

Heart-Shaped Comb Jelly

Irregular lobed larva with fine cilia around its edge.

Lobed Marine Larva Line Art

Transparent blue larva with four long projecting arms and a small central body.

Long-Armed Sea Urchin Larva

Pink shrimp larva with long pointed head spines and large dark eyes.

Spiny Pink Shrimp Larva

Curved chain of clear blue-and-pink units with long thin tentacles.

Siphonophore Colony With Trailing Tentacles

Clear blue salp with broad ring-shaped openings and an orange internal organ.

Solitary Salp With Pale Bands

Small squid with a dotted mantle, side fins and long club-ended tentacles.

Young Squid Line Art

Transparent pink larva with several rounded lobes fringed by fine hairs.

Pink Starfish Larva

Marine larva with long projecting lobes and a broad folded body.

Asymmetrical Starfish Larva Line Art

Long curved segmented worm with paired paddle-like side appendages.

Pelagic Bristle Worm Line Art

Small golden larva with a broad fringe around its middle and a tuft above.

Ciliated Trochophore Larva

Blue oval floating colony with a tall triangular translucent sail.

Blue By-The-Wind Sailor

Long transparent-looking ribbon animal curling into an S shape.

Ribbon-Shaped Comb Jelly Line Art