Morphological Identification Keys
The following links to webpages provide useful information (species lists, taxonomic keys, monographs) to support and inform the taxonomic identification of zooplankton.
General / Multiple Group Keys
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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 |
Marine Species Identification Portal
http://species-identification.org/index.php
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
https://www.marinespecies.org/
Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche sur Mer
http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/Rade/RadeZoo/RadZoo/eng/RadeZoo_eng/Home.html
Census of Marine Zooplankton
http://www.cmarz.org/resources.html
Ciliates Keys
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A guide to coastal planktonic ciliates:
http://zooplankton.cn/ciliate/Datasheets/l_stro.htm
Copepods Keys
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Coelenterata Keys
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Zooplankton in general
- Identification sheets for Zooplankton [ http://www.ices.dk/products/fiche/plankton/start.pdf ]
- Marine Species Identification Portal. A site that offers information and online identification keys on different species, not only planktonic ones, in the world's oceans [http://species-identification.org/index.php ]
- World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). An authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms, including information on synonymy [ http://www.marinespecies.org/ ]
- Observation of zooplankton at the «Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche sur Mer» RadeZoo service [ http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/Rade/RadeZoo/RadZoo/eng/RadeZoo_eng/Current_plankton.html#3 ]
- Site with useful collections of taxonomic reference by the Census of Diversity of Marine Zooplankton [ http://www.cmarz.org/resources/zooplankton_taxonomic_references.htm#worms ]
- Images of different zooplankton organisms [http://www.imagequestmarine.com/cgi-bin/stock/plankton.cgi ]
- Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 with illustrations and descriptions of a diversity of planktonic species [http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-INDEX/index-illustrated.htm ]
- A database of Arctic zooplankton with species lists [ http://www.arcodiv.org/Database/Plankton_datasets.html ]
- An open access repository for plankton-related information provided by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research with photos and descritions [http://planktonnet.awi.de//index.php?thematicid=2051]
Taxonomic techniques
- Workshop on Taxonomic Techniques for Copepods (Prepared by Janet W. Reid) [http://invertebrates.si.edu/copepod/techniques.htm ]