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copepod
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co·pe·pod (kp-pd)
n.
Any of numerous minute marine and freshwater crustaceans of the subclass Copepoda, having an elongated body and a forked tail.
copepod
a member of the subclass Copepoda of marine invertebrate parasites. There are more than 4500 species. Includes Cyclops spp. intermediate host for Spirometra erinacei, Diphyllobothrium latum.


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Moreover, the other intermediary hosts of the fish tapeworm, the calanoid copepods Diaptomus diabolicus and Boeckela gracilipes, are also abundant (16).
Salmon aquaculture and transmission of the fish tapeworm by Cabello, Felipe C. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
3) Since the water is so cold, only a few tiny animals like copepods are around to eat the algae.
Big changes in the Bering Sea by Science World
The incidence of cholera in India has been linked to marine copepods as disease vectors of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae (Figure 3).
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