Morphological Identification Keys

ICES Identification sheets for Zooplankton

ID Leaflets for Plankton [web page]:   https://www.ices.dk/Science/publications/Pages/ID_leaflets_plankton.aspx

The page above has direct links to the newest and updated sheets.

ID Leaflets interactive PDF:  Depending on your browser (Firefox vs. IE vs. Chrome) and your version of Adobe PDF reader, this may or may not work for you, it may show an error message, or it may just give you a blank white screen.  At the moment, Internet Explorer (IE) seems to work most of the time.  ICES is in the process of updating and rebuilding this file, and hopes to eliminate the problems once this process is completed.

http://www.ices.dk/sites/pub/Publication%20Reports/Plankton%20leaflets/INDEX.PDF

• A complete interactive database of all described marine planktonic copepods, including taxonomic classification with references, illustrated and referenced species database and a geographic distribution in the world's oceans and seas, with division in zones and subzones [ http://copepodes.obs-banyuls.fr/en/ ]
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•  Marine Biological Association (MBA, Plymouth - UK) publications (http://www.mba.ac.uk/nmbl-publications):

1. Pub21b. Identification of the copepodite developmental stages of twenty-six North Atlantic copepods (revised edition)

2. Pub25. Marine Zooplankton of southern Britain. Part 1: Radiolaria, Heliozoa, Foraminifera, Ciliophora, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Platyhelminthes, Nemertea, Rotifera and Mollusca

3. Pub26. Marine Zooplankton of southern Britain. Part 2: Arachnida, Pycnogonida, Cladocera, Facetotecta, Cirripedia and Copepoda

4. Pub27. Marine zooplankton of southern Britain. Part 3: Ostracoda, Stomatopoda, Nebaliacea, Mysida, Amphipoda, Isopoda, Cumacea, Euphausiacea, Decapoda, Annelida, Tardigrada, Nematoda, Phoronida, Bryozoa, Entoprocta, Brachiopoda, Echinodermata, Chaetognatha, Hemichordata and Chordata

• Identification keys and descriptions for several copepod species [http://www.luciopesce.net/copepods/ ]
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• Identification key to the Calanoid Copepods of the Family Euchaetidae from the Gulf of Mexico and Western Caribbean Sea by Taisoo Park [ http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/zoology/pdf_hi/SCTZ-0196.pdf ]

• Identification key to the Calanoid Copepods of the Family Heterorhabdidae by Taisoo Park [ftp://globec.whoi.edu/pub/cmarz/pdf/copepod_refs/Park,%202000.pdf ,%202000.pdf ]   (This can be a very slow link.  A local copy is available here.)
  
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• Short description with pictures and photographies of copepod species in the Bay of Villefranche-sur-mer [http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/~gaspari/copepods_guide/ ]
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• Online delta identification key to calanoid copepod families by Janet Bradford-Grieve [http://www.crustacea.net/crustace/calanoida/ident.htm ]

• A link to freely available books (as downloadable as pdf) [http://archive.org/search.php?query=copepoda ]
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• Giesbrecht, W., Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der Angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte: Atlas von 54 Tafeln nebst den Tafelerklarungen. Vol. 19 Text (34 MB) and vol. 19 Plates (28.6 MB). 1892, Berlin: Verlag Von R. Friedlander & Sohn. 
• M. Rose, ed. P. Lechevalier. Vol. 26. 1933, Paris: Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles. 374 pp. (14.8 MB) [

• A Key for the Identification of the More Common Planktonic Copepoda of Indian Coastal Waters by L. R. Kasturirangan, 1963

• Evolution of calanoid copepods [ http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/lucifer/gifs/copepod-taxo-evol.gif ]

• Kramp, P.L. (1961) Synopsis of the Medusae of the World. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 40. 469p.  [http://www.mba.ac.uk/nmbl/publications/jmba_40/jmba_40.htm ]
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• Russell, F.S. (1953) The Medusae of the British Isles Vol. I: Anthomedusae, Leptomedusae, Limnomedusae, Trachymedusae, and Narcomedusae. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [http://www.mba.ac.uk/nmbl/publications/medusae_1/medusae_1.htm ]
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