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Copepoda
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Co`pep´o`da
n. pl.1.(Zool.) An order of Entomostraca, including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine.
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Noun1.Copepoda - minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans
subclass Copepoda
class Crustacea, Crustacea - class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas
copepod, copepod crustacean - minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish
genus Cyclops - copepod water fleas
Branchiura, order Branchiura - copepods with suctorial mouthparts; parasitic on fishes
class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders


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Moreover, the other intermediary hosts of the fish tapeworm, the calanoid copepods Diaptomus diabolicus and Boeckela gracilipes, are also abundant (16).
Salmon aquaculture and transmission of the fish tapeworm by Cabello, Felipe C. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
3) Since the water is so cold, only a few tiny animals like copepods are around to eat the algae.
Big changes in the Bering Sea by Science World
The incidence of cholera in India has been linked to marine copepods as disease vectors of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae (Figure 3).
Oceans and human health: a new era of environmental opportunities by Baden, Daniel G. / Environmental Health Perspectives
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