copepod

Noun
  1. Minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax;
    Some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish (synset 101999239)
    is a type of: crustacean - any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
    subtypes:
    • brit, britt - minute crustaceans forming food for right whales
    • cyclops, water flea - minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
    • fish louse - a kind of copepod
    belongs to: copepoda, subclass copepoda - minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans
    is a part of: plankton - the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water
    same as: copepod crustacean

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