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Copepods (/ˈkoʊpəpɒd/;
meaning 'oar-feet') are a
group of
small crustaceans found in
nearly every freshwater and sal****er 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...
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Clausidium vancouverense, the red
copepod, is a
symbiont of the
ghost shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis. It is one of six
species in the
genus Clausidium...
- shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles,
copepods,
opossum shrimps,
amphipods and
mantis shrimp. The
crustacean group can...
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often classified as "forage fish".
Forage fish
utilise the biom**** of
copepods,
mysids and
krill in the
pelagic zone to
become the
dominant converters...
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Tigriopus californicus is an
intertidal copepod species that is
native on the
Pacific coast of
North America. This
species has been the
subject of numerous...
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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...
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Norkus is a
monotypic genus of
marine copepods in the
family Sphyriidae. Its sole species,
Norkus cladocephalus, is a
parasite of the
shovelnose guitarfish...
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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...
- an
order of
copepods, in the
subphylum Crustacea. This
order comprises 463
genera and
about 3,000 species; its
members are
benthic copepods found throughout...
