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What is a copepod?

What is a copepod? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of very many small crustaceans, of the subclass Copepoda, that are widely distributed and ecologically important; they include the water fleas.
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Migration may also allow a copepod or other animal to change its position horizontally.
When a female copepod ingests the remains of a male mosquito larva killed by the protozoans, the copepod also ingests the spores.
It still must pass through its life cycle, but its intermediate host need not be one species of snail, fish, or copepod.
The photograph at the top left is a species of copepod, the same family as sea lice, which proliferate under and around salmon farms.
From the protopodites of both the latter spring strong hooks like those of the copepod and Phyllopod Nauplii.
In Maritime waters, a typical pelagic food chain may have the following organisms in it: diatom, copepod, herring, cod, and human.

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