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Copepod information online

This page provides links to information about the biology, ecology and systematics of copepods. It is a resource that scientists, students and teachers at all levels, and the general public, can use to find out more about this ubiquitous group of crustaceans.  

You are invited to contribute to this section by submiting texts and illustrations on your own work, or any interesting material about copepods. Please contact the webmaster.


Available resources on this website:

Reference series. A web-based bibliographic service on copepods and related topics.

An introduction to copepods. From R. Huys & G. Boxshall, 1990. Copepod Evolution (in PDF; with permission from the publisher)

Alternative search engines for copepod literature (by Janet  Reid, Virginia Museum of Natural History, U.S.A.)

DELTA Project. Illustrated interactive keys on Crustacea, including copepods.

 




Sources of useful information on copepods elsewhere:
The World of Copepoda

Copepod web portal

Copepod neuroecology
Copepods from anchialine caves
The virtual copepod page

Copepod world

The plankton net
Copepod biology
OBIS (Ocean Biogeographic Information system)

MarZ (Census of Marine Zooplankton)

Identification keys:
Copepods of the Great Lakes
Marine calanoids
Harpacticoids
Diversity and Geographic Distribution of Marine Planktonic Copepods



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