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copepods's Usage Examples:

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.

comprising the primitive phyllopods, the minute copepods, the parasitic cirrhipedes and the powerful crabs and lobsters, and the highly elaborated sand-hoppers and slaters.

The children are experts at isolating the tiny zooplankton with a pipette and we see some great examples of copepods under the microscope.

There was also a generally good agreement between the abundances of the rarer large biomass dominant calanoid copepods estimated by both samplers.

This proposal aims both to simplify our existing molecular identification system for Calanus spp., and to expand it to include other common copepods.

The tidally mixed near shore environments support zooplankton communities dominated by smaller copepods and having large meroplankton contributions.

In contrast to total copepods, Calanus finmarchicus shows a decline.

To build a biodiversity database comprising all records of Brazilian marine planktonic copepods based on literature, collections and new material.

copepods in large densities in surface waters, which is known to be the primary food source of basking sharks in summer months.

In the plankton sessions we found copepods with their egg sacs, barnacle larve andsome diatoms under the highest magnification.

copepods's Meaning':

minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish