Copepods are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat. Some species are planktonic, some are benthic, several species have parasitic phases, and some contine
Веслоногие ракообразные разных видов
Copepods from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur
Egg sac of a copepod
Acanthochondria cornuta, an ectoparasite on flounder in the North Sea
The clade Multicrustacea constitutes the largest superclass of crustaceans, containing approximately four-fifths of all described non-hexapod crustacean species, including crabs, lobsters, crayfish, s
Copepod
…sinkholes, or stream beds. Copepods are sometimes used as biodiversity indicators. Copepods are assigned to the class Copepoda within the superclass Multicrustacea in the subphylum Crustacea. An alternative treatment is as a subclass belonging to class Hexanauplia. They are divided into 10 orders. Some 13,000…
Crustacea diversity
Copepod
Sacculina Sacculina carcini (Rhizocephala) parasite of a crab.