Identifying zooplankton requires the use of a compound microscope. A dissecting microscope is also handy for sorting and counting. Specimens are mounted on glass slides and examined at 25-100X magnification.

Hello Pragya; You have my sympathies! You evidently don't have an expert at hand. I had a deep interest in ant ecology and had none of the literature nor any of the identification skills needed. It took five years to accumulate the literature and skills needed. Persistence and reaching out to experts in the nearest museums worked but it took a while. Get the literature IN YOUR HANDS. Learn the anatomy and invest in the needed equipment – Mr Hasan is correct.

When you have some specimens identified as best you can, ask an expert if you can send them 2 or 3 specimens for confirmation. Ask BEFORE you send anything and be sure that the specimens are prepared in the way the expert prefers. Once you have some specimens that you know are correctly identified, progress will be much quicker. The best of luck, and be patient. Jim Des Lauriers

Hello dear colleagues. I am to totally in agreement with @james des lauriers recommending a good solution. This is the same happened to me when I started my master thesis in 2010 and my supervisor requested me to focus on faunistic study of Class Collembola from phylum Arthropoda. I was totally unfamiliar with this group, but gradually with patience, collecting literature and working hours on mounted specimens and consulting with experts around the world, I could successfully write my master thesis and also continue the same research direction in my PhD thesis. Another challenge I have got into was in 2019 about determination of earthworms collected from tea gardens related to my current project. First, I got literatures to know the morphology, then know the experts in my country and in the world then ask them or I searched myself the keys. The last not the least, with patience identify your specimen, then contact with an active expert and consult with her or him and organize everything in your mind. Thank you.

Thank you for guidance@ Ali A. Hasan . Yes sir i did same thing for observation and identification of planktons in microscope.

Thank you so much for your valuable advice and for sharing your experience also. l did my identification up to class level for classify them up to genus level it is taking time and experience also. i will try to do as you said @ James Des Lauriers

Hello mam. thank you so much for encouraging me with your research experience and for your valuable guidance and advice also. I will do my best. Elaheh Daghighi

For each taxon is necesary a identification key.

Sergio Cházaro-Olvera thank you sir for your response. yes sir ! you are right, I am still working on this.

Hi Mehta,

I find out this answer, may be useful in ur case: To identify zooplankton requires use of a compound microscope. A dissecting microscope is also handy for sorting and counting. Specimens are mounted on glass slides and examined at 25-100X magnification.

Ali A. Hasan Thank you so much sir for your valuable response.

Dear Prsgya,

I hope you are doing well, u can read the procedure of test in biology, plant, environment books, so u will overcome this delema

Ali A. Hasan Thank u so much sir. I will definitely read.

Please consult this site:

Introductory Guide to Zooplankton Identification - UBC EOAS

https://www.eoas.ubc.ca › ~swaterma › Handouts

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identified to a broad taxonomic group, there are more detailed guides available to identify it to species (e.g. see Australian Marine Zooplankton: A ...

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