Evergreen Natural History Database

Size:
<2mm

Abundance:
Rare

Defining Characteristics:
Posterior corners of prosome produced as assymetrical rounded spines; urosome asymmetrical; Red nauplier eye.

Suggested Reading:
Anraku, Masateru and Omori, Makoto. 1963. Preliminary survey of the relationship between the feeding habit and the structure of the mouth-parts of marine copepods. Limnology and Oceanography. 8: 116 - 126.

Last updated Thursday, September 07, 2006, by Lisa Ferrier