Hello,
Can someone give me a hint on good literature for identifying copepods?
Do you seriously expect anyone from literature studies to answer this question? Please, check your topics before posting to avoid spamming.
Copepods live in a large diversity of habitats. There is no literature dealing with all copepods worldwide.
Are you interested in marine or freshwater copepods? In surface waters or subterranean waters? In which geographical zone?
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perhaps this website would help you!
http://copepodes.obs-banyuls.fr/en/diversite_geo_a.php
You should use the key from Ulrich Einsle - it is in german but at a very high level and well to handle, the title is "Süßwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, 21 Bde., Bd.8/4-1, Crustacea, Copepoda, Calanoida und Cyclopoida". This accounts only for copepods in inland waters but I guess this is your issue here
This might be also helpful if you are interested in marine copepods
http://www.faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/M.ROSE%28FdeFr26%29Copepodes-pelagiques.pdf
The pbs-banuls and faunedefrance sites mentioned above are both very good. Also check out the Census of Marine Zooplankton website:
http://www.cmarz.org/resources/taxonomic_tools.html
http://www.cmarz.org/resources/zooplankton_taxonomic_references.htm
Hello, you could contact Josue Alvarez Borrego that has done extensive research on optical identification of marine organisms
Hi, you could contact Ricardo Palomares García ([email protected]) that have a book published on copepod taxonomy. This book are in spanish but is very broad and complete.
Palomares–García JR, Suárez–Morales E, Hernández–Trujillo S
(1998) Catálogo de los copépodos (Crustácea) pelágicos del
Pacífico mexicano. CICIMAR–IPN, México.
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