Perhaps the best known case among aquatic animals is Sapphirina, a marine copepod living at the surface of the sea, and especially likely to be collected with other luminous forms.
It has been shown that the embryos of the worm, which are discharged in vast numbers on the bursting of the abscess, do not develop unless they fall into water containing certain species of the Copepod Cyclops (see Fig.
Bullen that the fluctuations in the yield of the Mackerel fishery from year to year follow very closely the fluctuations in the abundance of the Copepod plankton on the fishing-grounds.
These eyes, although paired, do not correspond to the paired compound eyes of other Crustacea, but have arisen by the separation and enlargement of two of the three divisions of the typical median Copepod eye.
A certain number of insects are found which lead this singular kind of life, but this is more especially the case among the crustaceans, particularly the copepod crustaceans.
Salensky of Charkow, found a copepod crustacean, the Sphaeronella Leuckarti, in the egg-pouch of an Amphitoe.
Among the smaller species of crustaceans, a minute pelagic copepod (Limnocalanus grimaldii) also inhabits the Baltic and the Arctic Ocean.
The two Amphipods Gammaracanthus relictus and Pontoporeia affinis and the Copepod Limnocalanus macrurus, are three additional well-known Arctic crustaceans whose range differs but little from those above-mentioned.
The larval stages commence with a Nauplius[199] which, though regarded by Claus as closely resembling the Copepod Nauplius (figs.
The two typical divisions of the Copepodmaxillipeds are present, viz.
These characters would seem incompatible with Copepod affinities, but point to the independent derivation of the Cirripedia from some early bivalve Phyllopod form.
From the protopodites of both the latter spring strong hooks like those of the Copepod and Phyllopod Nauplii.
It has not the typical biramous Copepod character.
These feet resemble Copepod feet, and form the main ground for the views of Claus and others that the Copepoda and Cirripedia are closely related.
A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans.
Defn: A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes.
A tribe of parasitic copepod Crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans.
Defn: A division of copepod crustaceans, including numerous species parasitic on fishes.
A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes.
A division of copepod crustaceans, including numerous species parasitic on fishes.
Given a generation or two of rational training and a nobler ideal of what befits a human being, and thecopepod will yet succour herself.
They don't want to change, any more than the copepod wants to change.
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