Maxillopoda
Copepods
CLASSIFICATION
Main Group: Animal
Sublevel 1: Non-chordate Invertebrate
Sublevel 2: Invertebrate with bilateral symmetry
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Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Maxillopoda
STATUS IN NEW ENGLAND
Invasive, Pest, or Pathogen?: No
BIOLOGY/ECOLOGY
Feeding Type: Heterotroph
HABITAT
NOTES
The copepods consist of all taxa within the Subclass Copepoda (within Class Maxillopoda).
PHOTOS OF Maxillopoda

Freshwater copepod adult
Worcester County, MA
Date: 2007-04-07

Freshwater copepod nauplius
Worcester County, MA
Date: 2007-04-07

Freshwater copepod with egg masses
Essex County, MA
Date: 2007-04-23
