Class Copepoda

• Commonly found as zooplankton in both freshwater and marine ecosystems
• Characterized by the presence of a median nauplius eye
• THe body is divided to an anterior metastome and posterior urosome
• There are three types: cyclopoid, calanoid, or harpacticoid
• The females are commonly parthenogenetic
• Cyclops

  A) Egg sac

  B) Ramus of tail

  C) Cephalothorax

  D) Eye

  E) Eye

  F) Antennule

  G) Telson

  
• Phylum: Arthropoda

  Subphylum: Mandibulata

  Superclass: Crustacea

  Class: Copepoda

  Order: Cyclopoida

  Family: Cyclopidae

  Genus: Cyclops

  Common name: water fleas

  
• Cyclops general anatomy

  A) eye

  B) antennae 1

  C) thorax

  D) Abdomen

  E) Caudal ramus