Definition of Copepoda. Meaning of Copepoda. Synonyms of Copepoda

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Definition of Copepoda

Copepoda
Copepoda Co*pep"o*da, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ? an oar + -poda.] (Zo["o]l.) An order of Entomostraca, including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine. Note: They have a distinct carapace. The eggs are carried in a pair of external pouches. Some are parasites of fishes.

Meaning of Copepoda from wikipedia

- for parasitic copepods, 'fish lice'. Copepods are ****igned to the class Copepoda within the superclass Multicrustacea in the subphylum Crustacea. An alternative...
- crustaceans") — Branchiopoda, Copepoda, Malacostraca, Thecostraca; Multicrustacea ("numerous crustaceans") — Copepoda, Malacostraca, Thecostraca; Communostraca...
- recognised as classes (e.g. Thecostraca, Tantulocarida, Mystacocarida, Copepoda, Branchiura and Pentastomida). The following cladogram shows the updated...
- organs due to extreme adaptation to its parasitic life style. Cyclops (Copepoda) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first person to observe the difference...
- Branchiopoda (freshwater, non-decapod 'shrimp'). Newer studies also relocate Copepoda, which traditionally has belonged to the multicrustaceans, to the Allotriocarida...
- Malacostraca), combining all other classes—Branchiopoda, Cephalocarida, Ostracoda, Copepoda and the obsolete Maxillopoda. The Ostracoda have the body enclosed in a...
- (2006). "The occurrence of Lepeophtheirus salmonis and Caligus clemensi (Copepoda: Caligidae) on threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus in coastal...
- The Cyclopoida are an order of small crustaceans from the class Copepoda. Like many other copepods, members of Cyclopoida are small, planktonic animals...
- is Dracunculiasis. It is acquired by swallowing water in which certain copepoda occur that act as vectors for the Nematoda. Anyone swallowing a copepod...
- Rocha (1999). "Copepoda: developments in ecology, biology and systematics: proceedings of the Seventh international conference on Copepoda, held in Curitiba"...