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  • proper noun A taxonomic subclass within the class Maxillopoda — very many aquatic crustacea.

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  • His research interests range from ecology, limnology, biostatistics and modeling, through ecosystems functioning, global climate change, nitrogen and carbon cycling in temperate peatlands to taxonomy, ecology and biogeography of Rotifera, Cladocera and Copepoda.

    Contributor: Leszek A. Bledzki 2010

  • Evolutionary biology of siphonostome parasites of vertebrates Siphonostomatoida: Copepoda.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Evolutionary biology of siphonostome parasites of vertebrates Siphonostomatoida: Copepoda.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Evolutionary biology of siphonostome parasites of vertebrates Siphonostomatoida: Copepoda.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • The Copepoda is one of the largest groups of crustaceans.

    Crustacea 2008

  • The number of species in the upper 200 meters (m) of the pelagic oceanic environment is well known for four groups of animals, the Euphausicacea, Chaetognatha, Pteropoda and Copepoda, which dominate the biomass everywhere.

    Marine biodiversity 2007

  • He also, in closing, compares such early larval forms as those given in figures 193 _E_ and 194, to the free swimming Copepoda.

    Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

  • Copepoda, Claus called attention to the difference of the sexes in this respect.

    Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859

  • In the Copepoda this formation of new segments and limbs, gradually advancing from before backwards, is more perfectly preserved than in any of the higher Crustacea.

    Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859

  • This is a circumstance which renders very doubtful the equivalence of the middle-body of the Malacostraca with the section of the body which in the Copepoda bears the swimming feet and in the Cirripedia the cirri.

    Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859

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  • See copepoda. The 1st letter of the word Copepoda is upper case.

    The corpus of Copepoda generally tapers anteroposteriorly.

    Copepoda constitute the predominant taxon of zooplankton.

    July 10, 2011