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.

You may also want to look at the WGZE identification sheets page (click here).

• 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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