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definition
Any of very many small crustaceans of the subclass Copepoda, that are widely distributed and ecologically important.
Examples of copepods in a Sentence
In the plankton sessions we found copepods with their egg sacs, barnacle larve andsome diatoms under the highest magnification.
To build a biodiversity database comprising all records of Brazilian marine planktonic copepods based on literature, collections and new material.
In contrast to total copepods, Calanus finmarchicus shows a decline.
The tidally mixed near shore environments support zooplankton communities dominated by smaller copepods and having large meroplankton contributions.
This proposal aims both to simplify our existing molecular identification system for Calanus spp., and to expand it to include other common copepods.
There was also a generally good agreement between the abundances of the rarer large biomass dominant calanoid copepods estimated by both samplers.
The children are experts at isolating the tiny zooplankton with a pipette and we see some great examples of copepods under the microscope.
Though the animals have an oral siphon, they do not carry ovisacs like the siphonostomous copepods, but glue their eggs in rows to extraneous objects.
In those Copepods in which the palps of the mandibles as well as the antennae are biramous and natatory, the first three pairs of appendages retain throughout life, with little modification, the shape and function which they have in the nauplius stage, and must, in all likelihood, be regarded as approximating to those of the primitive Crustacea.