#copepod_crustacean__copepodcrustacean__copepod minute marine or fresh-water crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish
supertype: crustacean any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
part of: plankton
member of: subclass_Copepoda
subtype: brit__britt minute crustaceans forming food for right whales
subtype: cyclops__cyclop__water_flea__waterflea minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
subtype: fish_louse a kind of copepod
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