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

Maxillopoda

Freshwater copepod adult

Worcester County, MA

Date: 2007-04-07

Maxillopoda

Freshwater copepod nauplius

Worcester County, MA

Date: 2007-04-07

Maxillopoda

Freshwater copepod with egg masses

Essex County, MA

Date: 2007-04-23