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 ...

Imagine a species that is only one millimetre long and has only a limited swimming ability. Yet, its mobility is sufficient for moving, feeding and reproducing in freshwater and seawater. That's ...

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 ...

'Calanoid Copepods of the Arabian Sea Region' marks the first time peer-reviewed taxonomic information on zooplankton for the northwestern Indian Ocean has been collected in one place and in ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

Imagine a species that is only one millimetre long and has only a limited swimming ability. Yet, its mobility is sufficient for moving, feeding and reproducing in freshwater and seawater. That's ...