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ABSTRACT Since the time of Brady it has been generally supposed that amongst the Copepoda the most important locomotor organs were the antennules. This belief is categorically stated in Huxley’s text-book on ‘The Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals,’ p. 235.
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Abstract Surveys of caves of the Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia, revealed a remarkable assemblage of exceptionally well‐preserved mummified arthropods, comprising Araneae, Blattodea, Coleoptera and Chilopoda, all of which exhibit high levels of troglomorphism, lacking eyes and showing a number of other adaptations.
Juanita Rodriguez +2 more
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Preliminary Investigation on the Physiology and Ecology of Luminescence in the Copepod, Metridia lucens [PDF]
1. Skin glands believed to be the source of luminescence were found on the anterior portion of the head, on the last thoracic segment, and on the posterior margins of each segment of the abdomen. 2. The maximum intensity of the luminescent flash was 1.2
Conover, Robert J. +2 more
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The catalogue of caves with endemic cavernicolous arthropod fauna of Romania
The authors provide the centralized data about the Romanian caves with endemic fauna, based on all reliable bibliographic sources (as quoted in text and cited in the chapter references) and based on their research activity.
EUGEN NITZU +6 more
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Planktonic communities have important roles in aquatic ecosystems, including rivers. But studies of plankton organisms in lotic systems are infrequent.
Ekaterina Yu. Afonina +1 more
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The genus Eurytemora is a diverse group of copepods found in coastal, estuarine, brackish, and freshwater environments. The main research has focused on Eurytemora affinis (Poppe, 1880) and revealed it to be a species complex. Eurytemora velox (Liljeborg,
Céleste Mouth +9 more
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Distribution and abundance of Cladocera, Copepoda and impacts of alien species in the southwestern Caspian Sea during 1996-2014 [PDF]
The Caspian Sea ecosystem has been suffered from many problems since 1980s. Owing to the significance of zooplankton communities in marine ecosystems, the state of the fluctuations of Copepoda and Cladocera species and their relationship with Ctenophora ...
Siamak Bagheri, Jalil Sabkara
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Dormancy is a widespread phenomenon in Copepoda. It is known from free-living and bottom dwelling representatives of three copepod taxa, namely Harpacticoida, Cyclopoida, and Calanoida. There are 7 genera of Harpacticoida, 9 genera of Cyclopoida and 31 genera of Calanoida that exhibit dormancy in both marine and freshwaters.
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ABSTRACT The introduction of exotic species is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss in aquatic ecosystems. The Harris mud crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii, native to the Atlantic coast of North America, was recorded in the Patos Lagoon estuary (southern Brazil) in the 1980s, likely introduced via ballast water. However, the effects of this invader
Renan C. Machado +2 more
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Samples of meiofauna were collected with a Multicorer during the Magellan `Victor Hensen´ Campaign of RV `Victor Hensen´ in 1994 at 62 stations along the Magellan Straits and the Beagle Channel.
Kai Horst George, Horst Kurt Schminke
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