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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Crustaceans (Crustacea) » Maxillopods (Maxillopoda) » Copepods (Copepoda)

Subclass Copepoda - Copepods

Classification · Size · Identification · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Calanoid Copepod - Epischura lacustris Cyclopoid - female Copepod Sea Louse Salmon Louse Acartia tonsa - Acartia Cyclopoid Copepod - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Crustacea (Crustaceans)
Class Maxillopoda (Maxillopods)
Subclass Copepoda (Copepods)
Size
Usually 5 mm or less.
Identification
Body segmented and cylindrical.
Habitat
Aquatic habitats from fresh water to hypersaline; including vernal pools, subterranean caves, bromeliad leaves, or leaf litter.
Food
Some graze bottom detritus, others filter plankton, and others are predaceous.
Remarks
the most numerous metazoans in the water community (metazoan: multi-celled animals).
Print References
(1)
Internet References
Smithsonian Institution
Biology of Copepods
Tree of Life
Wikipedia
fcps.edu
Works Cited
1.A Field Guide to the Animals of Vernal Pools
Leo P. Kenney and Matthew R. Burne. 2000. Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program and Vernal Pool Association.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 8 November, 2009 - 11:17pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 17 October, 2010 - 9:26am

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