Mediterranean and Black Sea Monstrilloid Copepods (Copepoda: Monstrilloida): Rediscovering the Diversity of Transient Zooplankters

Monstrilloids are copepods that live freely in plankton without feeding but have parasitic immature stages that develop within infected benthic molluscs and polychaetes. Because of their incompletely known life cycles and the difficulty of matching conspecific males and females, it has been difficul...

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Main Authors: Eduardo Suárez-Morales, Mark J. Grygier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-04-01
Series:Water
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/8/1036