Marine Planktonic Copepods
Cyclopoida and Poecilostomatoida (a few examples)

Fig. G20: Cyclopoida and Poecilostomatoida (a few examples).

Cyclopoida:

5: Blakeanus corniger (female: lateral view) (after Wilson, 1921).

6: Namakosiramia californiensis (female: dorsal view) (after Ho and Perkins, 1977).

7 and 8: Notopterophorus papilio (7: female, 8: male, lateral view) (after Sars, 1921). [in the branchial cavity of an ascidian: Phallusia mentula].

13: Notodelphys allmani (female) (after Sars, 1921). [parasite of the branchial cavity of ascidians].

14: Oithona spinirostris (female: dorsal view) (after Sars, 1918). [free-living, pelagic].

15: Acanthocyclops vernalis (female: dorsal view) (after Claus, 1863). [free-living in ponds, cosmopolitan].

16: Taurocheros salminsii (female: lateral view) (after Yamaguti, 1963).

17: Buprorus loveni (female: lateral view) (after Sars, 1921).

18: Lernaeocera branchialis (female) (after Yamaguti, 1963).

19: Anoplodelphys incerta (female: ventral view) (after Lafargue and Laubier, 1968). [parasite of an ascidian].

Poecilostomatoida:

1: Protochondrachantus alatus (female: dorsal view) (after Yamaguti, 1963). [parasite on marine teleosts].

2: Chondrachantus neali (female: lateral view) (after Kabata, 1979).

3 and 4: Leposphilus labrei (3: male, lateral view; 4: female, dorsal view) (after Delamare-Deboutteville, 1962). [between the lateral-line scales of wrasses (Crenilabrus), forming red tumours].

9: Scheherezade scheherezade (female: ventral view) (after Leigh-Sharpe, 1934).

10: Colobomatus agassizi (female: dorsal view) (after Delamare-Deboutteville and Ruivo, 1958). [in the frontal canals of Charax].

11: Sarcotaces pacificus (male).

12: Shaerifer corvinae (female: dorsal view) (after Delamare-Deboutteville, 1962). [in the head canals of Corvina negra].

20: Philoblenna arabici (female: ventral view) (after Izawa, 1976). [parasite of a prosobranch gastropod].

21: Sarcotaces komaii (female) (after Delamare-Deboutteville, 1962). [in the muscle tissue beneath the scales of marine teleosts].

22: Colobomatus steenstrupi (female: dorsal view) (after Delamare-Deboutteville, 1962). [in the cephalic canals of Mullus].

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