Class: Crustacea

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Class Crustacea Subclass
Copepoda
Order Eucopepoda
Suborder Calanoida

Family Diaptomidae Arctodiaptom
us floridanus Description Plate 007a. Male
Arctodiaptomus floridanus with exposed right 5th
leg. Plate 007b. Right 5th leg of male
Arctodiaptomus floridanus. Plate 007c. Terminal
end of right 5th leg of male Arctodiaptomus
floridanus. Common calanoid copepod
throughout Florida and Georgia. The terminal
processes on the right 5th leg terminal, largest
of these sickle is shaped, smallest usually ½
the length of longest.
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Plate 007a. Male Arctodiaptomus floridanus with
exposed right 5th leg.
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Plate 007b. Right 5th leg of male Arctodiaptomus
floridanus.
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Plate 007c. Terminal end of right 5th leg of
male Arctodiaptomus floridanus.