General Features of the External Morphology of Marine Planktonic Copepods
1. Introduction
2. General morphology
3. Morphology of the various body parts and appendages
4. Dimensions
5. Body forms
6. Major structural modifications
7. The antennules
8. The antennae
9. The oral frame
10. The Mandibles
11. The Maxillules
12. The Maxillae
13. The Maxillipeds
14. The swimming legs
15. Variation in segment number
16. Nomenclature and Metamery
17. Tegumental structures and organs
18. Visual organs
19. Morphological variations
20. Sex ratio
21. Gynandromorphism and intersexuality
22. Mating
23. Parthenogenesis
24. Characteristics of egg-laying
25. Larval forms
26. Development time
27. Growth
28. Regeneration
29. Anomalies
30. Classification and Phylogeny
31. References
32. Photo library
Photo library
Photographic sources and credits: C.R. O.O.B. : Laboratoire Arago, Claude Razouls — F.B. : Laboratoire Arago, Francis de Bovée — J.P.L. O.O.V. : Observatoire de Villefranche sur Mer, Jean Philippe Labat
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