Marine Planktonic Copepods

Fig. G17: Platycopioida (A); Calanoida (B); Misophrioida (C1 and C2).

A: Platycopia perplexa (female: dorsal and lateral views) (after Sars, 1911).

B: Acartia clausi (female: dorsal view) (after Giesbrecht, 1892).

C1: Misophria pallida (female: dorsal view) (after Sars, 1911).

C2: Benthomisophria cornuta (male: lateral view) (after Boxshall, 1984).

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