Marine Planktonic Copepods

Fig. G7: mandible (pars molaris) and maxilla (Mx2) in three marine planktonic calanoid copepods (after Omori and Ikeda, 1984).

A: Calanus finmarchicus (herbivore); B: Centropages typicus (omnivore); C: Tortanus discaudatus (carnivore).

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Razouls C., Desreumaux N., Kouwenberg J. and de Bovée F., 2005-2026. - Biodiversity of Marine Planktonic Copepods (morphology, geographical distribution and biological data). Sorbonne University, CNRS. Available at http://copepodes.obs-banyuls.fr/en [Accessed September 09, 2026]