NOUN
- minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish
How To Use copepod In A Sentence
- Their diet consists primarily of parasitic copepods and other invertebrates that are taken from the mouth and gill openings of larger fish.
- The proportion of nauplii, copepodites, and adults of T. japonicus was also constant during the culture period at a ratio of 28: 47: 25. Chapter 7
- Its "cigar" is in fact a parasitic crustacean known as a copepod, but no one knows what the blobfish does with its comical nose. Where Wonders Await Us
- The most numerous inhabitants are hydroids and copepods.
- The ciliate herbivores are then fed upon by larger organisms such as copepods (small crustaceans). Marine microbes
- A closeup of Eurytemora, a kind of copepod that serves as a reservoir for the cholera bacterium. NPR Topics: News
- (nauplii: copepodites: adults) in the feedback culture system were constant at Chapter 7
- Copepods feed on microscopic algae and in turn serve as food for millions of other invertebrates and fish.
- By 10-11 days after hatching, young gar begin feeding on small crustaceans, such as cladocerans and copepods, and insects, including various dipterans such as chironomids.
- Their diet consists mainly of copepods.
