Planktonic ostracods are a neglected component of mesoplanktonic communities, despite being almost ubiquitous throughout the world’s oceans. Currently 209 species of halocyprid and 8 myodocopid ...

We are leading a growing programme of research on planktonic foraminifera, using their excellent fossil record to draw conclusions about evolutionary dynamics. A clade of open-ocean protists, ...

Users can search with a variety of queriable terms (e.g. cruise, latitude, longitude, tow type, mesh size, depth, etc.). Zooplankton of the San Diego Region Guide The Zooplankton of the San Diego ...

FEEDING: Adult hitch are open-water feeders that almost exclusively eat Daphnia — small, planktonic crustaceans known as “water fleas.” Juveniles feed primarily on the larvae and pupae of chironomid ...

Cysticercosis is caused by the larvae of the parasite Taenia solium, or pork tapeworm (stock photo) A man in the US who complained of frequent migraines was found to have tapeworm larvae in his ...

But when Mnemiopsis exploded in 1988—up to 500 individuals per cubic yard—and devoured all the zooplankton, including fish larvae ... both planktonic and on the bottom. At one time, water ...

These larvae will grow to become flying fish ... diminutive copepods, and other planktonic animals almost too numerous to count. “So,” an astonished Liittschwager said after we’d completed ...

Her results so far suggest that lower pH leads to declines in fertilization, in larval development, and also in settlement—the stage at which the coral larvae drop out of the water column ...

The prey species are drawn in by the planktonic food available ... because their eggs and resulting larvae would be retained ...