| The remoras themselves are covered with little parasites, crustaceans called copepods. |
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| Gudgeon love feeding upon copepods, tiny shelled invertebrates that form swarms just above the river bed. |
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| Bowhead whales feed on crustacean zooplankton, primarily large copepods of the genus Calanus and euphausiids. |
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| Foods eaten include trichopteran larvae, tendepedid larvae, cladocerans, isopods, crayfish, and copepods. |
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| Examples of animals in the P. spathula diet are copepods, cladocerans such Daphnia pulex, and ephemeropteran nymphs. |
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| In general, development rate is 1.5 to 2 times slower in freshwater calanoid copepods relative to their brackish or marine counterparts. |
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| This type of feeding can be found among certain spiders, mantids, scorpions, copepods, and midges. |
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| In two oligotrophic lakes, calanoid copepods ingested HNF at biomass-specific rates that were 2.2 times higher than those of cladocerans. |
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| Blacksmith are plankton feeders preferring zooplankton, including copepods, and the eggs and larvae of other marine organisms. |
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| Their diet consists primarily of parasitic copepods and other invertebrates that are taken from the mouth and gill openings of larger fish. |
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| For decades bacteriologists have known that the organism lives in close association with zooplankton, particularly the minute crustaceans known as copepods. |
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| Small perch caught near the upstream edge of the salinity wedge in Richibucto Estuary had more copepods in their stomachs than larger perch caught further downriver. |
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| 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. |
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| Guts of E. levis contain copepods, detritus, and algal material. |
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| Suspension-feeding zooplankton include rotifers, copepods, and cladocerans, with the latter constituting the major grazers in most small freshwater lakes. |
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| Parasites of Atlantic cod include copepods, digeneans, monogeneans, acanthocephalans, cestodes, nematodes, myxozoans, and protozoans. |
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| Newly hatched larvae drift northwards with the coastal current while feeding on larval copepods. |
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| It is a schooling fish that feeds on phytoplankton and zooplankton such as copepods. |
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| As other fish, groupers harbour parasites, including digeneans, nematodes, cestodes, monogeneans, isopods, and copepods. |
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| Coregonus vandesius inhabits deep, cold lakes, and uses planktonic crustaceans, such as copepods, as its primary food source. |
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| It might be expected that the habitat is less heterogeneous for smaller stygobiotic copepods than for larger stygobiotic ones. |
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| You can see the antennules, small hair structures, parasites that are living on the plankton, egg sacs on copepods. |
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| Yen found that male copepods, pinhead-size marine crustaceans with only primitive light sensors, chug along the tiny wakes left by females. |
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| The data for copepods, cladocerans, nauplii and Daphnia taxa were grouped by depth and separated by date. |
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| This microfauna includes calanoid copepods and cladocerans which are generally characterised as salt-sensitive organisms. |
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| Goose barnacles feed on plankton and small crustaceans such as copepods, isopods and amphipods. |
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| Both tapeworms exploit freshwater copepods as their first intermediate host. |
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| Preliminary field investigations revealed a large population of these copepods along the MS coastline. |
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| The whales grow to be about 60 feet long and weigh up to 75 tons, thanks to a diet of copepods, euphausiids, and other small invertebrates. |
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| Lipid biomarkers and trophic linkages between ctenophores and copepods in Svalbard waters. |
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| The 10 prey categories were chaetognaths, euphausiids, amphipods, copepods, crab, miscellaneous, and pollock. |
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| However, as a group, the small aquatic crustaceans called copepods form the largest animal biomass on earth. |
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| In the animation, juvenile herring hunt the copepods in this synchronised way. |
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| The copepods sense with their antennae the pressure wave of an approaching herring and react with a fast escape jump. |
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| In the Baltic, copepods of the genus Acartia can be present in large numbers. |
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| These copepods also tend to dwell more in surface waters, whereas herring and sprat, especially during the day, tend to dwell in deeper waters. |
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| As adults they have sharp teeth, and hunt small crustaceans such as copepods, as well as forage fish, shrimp and squid. |
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| For copepods, the egg hatches into a nauplius form, with a head and a tail but no true thorax or abdomen. |
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| Some 13,000 species of copepods are known, and 2,800 of them live in fresh water. |
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| Some copepods have extremely fast escape responses when a predator is sensed, and can jump with high speed over a few millimetres. |
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| Many benthic copepods eat organic detritus or the bacteria that grow in it, and their mouth parts are adapted for scraping and biting. |
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| About half of the estimated 13,000 described species of copepods are parasitic and have strongly modified bodies. |
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| In addition to being parasites themselves, copepods are subject to parasitic infection. |
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| Underdeveloped or disintegrated ovaries, as well as decreased fecal pellet size, are a direct result of starvation in female copepods. |
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| Live copepods are used in the saltwater aquarium hobby as a food source and are generally considered beneficial in most reef tanks. |
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| Its food consists of small schooling fish, squid, and crustaceans including copepods and krill. |
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| Pacific sardine have been observed to be highly euryphagous, feeding on phytoplankton, copepods, and euphausiids. |
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| In the photo below, herring ram feed on a school of copepods. |
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| Zooplankton, including cladocerans, copepods and the rotifer Keratella, were present in high numbers throughout the study and were still abundant when the medusae disappeared. |
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| Also imaged were a variety of invertebrate plankters, ranging from copepods and larvaceans to ctenophores and medusae to invertebrate larval types, such as echinoderm pluteus. |
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| Herrings are a prominent converter of zooplankton into fish, consuming copepods, arrow worms, pelagic amphipods, mysids, and krill in the pelagic zone. |
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| Krill and copepods are prey species in Australian and Antarctic waters. |
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| In a saltwater aquarium, copepods are typically stocked in the refugium. |
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| Live copepods are popular among hobbyists who are attempting to keep particularly difficult species such as the mandarin dragonet or scooter blenny. |
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| Planktonic copepods are important to global ecology and the carbon cycle. |
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| Herbivorous copepods, particularly those in rich, cold seas, store up energy from their food as oil droplets while they feed in the spring and summer on plankton blooms. |
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| Krill and copepods are not as widely fished, but may be the animals with the greatest biomass on the planet, and form a vital part of the food chain. |
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| Food studies of northern rockfish in both the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands indicate that the fish feed predominantly on plankton, especially euphausiids and copepods. |
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