Three publications recently reported that calanoid copepods, feeding on phytoplankton cells by using a feeding current, perceived such cells by mechanoperception. There was no evidence of remote ...

Populations of Diaptomus leptopus (Copepoda: Calanoida) and other calanoid copepods exhibit varying degrees of sexual size dimorphism. We examined whether intraspecific or interspecific variation in ...

A group of zoologists from Brazil and England presents a new guide for identification of planktonic calanoid copepods from the Diaptomidae family. The guide contains detailed information for the ...

Distribution of warm water epiplanktonic shrimps of the genera Lucifer and Acetes (Macrura, Penaeidea, Sergestidae) / Makoto Omori -- On doliolids collected from the Bay of Bengal / P. Dhandapani -- ...

FORSTER 1 has recently examined the peritrophic membrane in Caridea (Crustacea, Decapoda). He found a membrane in the mid-gut of all the Caridea examined and was able to show that it was chitinous. A ...

A deep-sea mystery has been solved with the discovery that the tiny 3 mm long marine animals, eaten by herring, cod and mackerel, use the same buoyancy control as whales. Reporting this week in the ...

Calanoid Copepoda from 2,000 m to 4,000 m were collected with closing nets on R.V. Trident cruises 023 and 036 in the North and South Atlantic. Both the Nansen vertical net and the large Clarke-Bumpus ...

Ingestion of toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense changes the energy balance and reproductive potential of Calanus finmarchicus in the North Atlantic, which is key food source for young fishes, ...