Copepods (/ˈkoʊpəpɒd/; meaning "oar-feet") are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat. Some species are planktonic...

most common genera of freshwater copepods, comprising over 400 species. Together with other similar-sized non-copepod fresh-water crustaceans, especially...

Ommatokoita is a monotypic genus of copepods, the sole species being Ommatokoita elongata. However, a specimen has been found on the skin of Etmopterus...

zooplankton are the copepods and krill. These are not shown in the images above, but are discussed in more detail later. Copepods are a group of small...

shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group can...

Telson is a genus of cyclopoid copepods in the family Telsidae. There are at least two described species in Telson. These two species belong to the genus...

Tigriopus californicus is an intertidal copepod species that occurs on the Pacific coast of North America. This species has been the subject of numerous...

and they first spawn at three years. Egg to juvenile Herrings consume copepods, arrow worms, pelagic amphipods, mysids, and krill in the pelagic zone...

Gaussia is a genus of copepods. The genus contains bioluminescent species. It is a "characteristic genus of the mesopelagial", occurring at depths of 0–3...

holoplankton spend their entire life cycle as plankton (e.g. most algae, copepods, salps, and some jellyfish). By contrast, meroplankton are only planktic...

Peniculus is a genus of marine copepods in the family Pennellidae. They occur worldwide and typically parasitize coastal or epipelagic fish, with the exception...

Kelleria is a genus of cyclopoid copepods in the family Kelleriidae, the sole genus in the family. There are about 19 described species in Kelleria. These...

diatoms, radiolarians, some dinoflagellates, foraminifera, amphipods, krill, copepods, and salps, as well as some gastropod mollusk species. Holoplankton dwell...

Tigriopus brevicornis is a coastal marine copepod. They are a dominant member of shallow supra tidal rock pools along the North Western European coastline...

Alella is a monotypic genus of copepods belonging to the family Lernaeopodidae. The only species, Alella pagelli, is found in Australia. Walter TC, Boxshall...

feeds primarily on zooplankton, specifically mollusc veligers, copepods, and copepod nauplii. They generally capture fewer gelatinous zooplankton, as...

infested by the copepod Ommatokoita elongata, a crustacean which attaches itself to the shark's eyes. It was speculated that the copepod may display bioluminescence...

develop in copepods. This led Russian naturalist Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko to discover in 1870 that D. medinensis is similarly transmitted via copepod intermediate...

Calanoida is an order of copepods, a group of arthropods commonly found as zooplankton. The order includes around 46 families with about 1800 species of...

Calanus finmarchicus is a species of copepod and a component of the zooplankton, which is found in enormous amounts in the northern Atlantic Ocean. Calanus...

(symphylans, pauropods, millipedes and centipedes), Pancrustacea (oligostracans, copepods, malacostracans, branchiopods, hexapods, etc.), and the extinct Trilobita –...

jellyfish and the Portuguese Man o' War; crustaceans such as cladocerans, copepods, ostracods, isopods, amphipods, mysids and krill; chaetognaths (arrow worms);...

Chondracanthus is a parasitic copepod genus in the family Chondracanthidae, containing the following species: Chondracanthus australis Ho, 1991 Chondracanthus...

found in animals, including fireflies, and many marine animals such as copepods, jellyfish, and the sea pansy. However, luciferases have been studied in...

Pennella balaenopterae is a large ectoparasitic copepod specialising in parasitising marine mammals. It is the largest member of the genus Pennella, the...

Clausidium vancouverense, the red copepod, is a symbiont of the ghost shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis. It is one of six species in the genus Clausidium...

The black prince copepod (Gaussia princeps) is a mesopelagic copepod found in temperate and tropical waters worldwide. They have been known to display...

Otto Friedrich Müller in 1785 for animals now known to be the larvae of copepods. The nauplius stage (plural: nauplii) is characterised by consisting of...

same names may be used for the tagmata. Copepods (a kind of crustacean) provide an example. The basic copepod body consists of a head, a thorax with six...

For example, the cod worm, Lernaeocera branchialis, starts life as a copepod-like larva, a small free-swimming crustacean. The first host used by the...