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Zooplankton

Bay Mills Indian Community

Water Quality

Amanda Bosak

Cladocera

Order: Cladocera Family: Bosminidae Genus: Bosmina

First antennae modified to tusks

Shell spine

Bosmina longirostris

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Order: Cladocera Family: Daphnidae Genus: Daphnia

Ocellus

Long tail spine

Head peak near body midline

Daphnia galeata mendotae

Front of head not concave

Ocellus absent

Antennae setae do not reach end of carapce

Daphnia retrocurva

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Order: Cladocera Family: Holopedidae

Humpbacked carapace

Surrounded by a gelatinous mantle

Holopedium gibberum

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Order: Cladocera Family: Leptodoridae

Leptodora kintii

Single compound eye

Carapace reduced

Body long and slender

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Calanoid Copepods

Long antennae

Order: Calanoida Family: Diaptomidae

5 terminal setae

Sides of last metosomal segment not wings, but rounded corners

Skistodiaptomus oregonensis

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Order: Calanoida Family: Temoridae

Epishura lacustris

3 stout terminal setae

Caudal rami not elongate

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Long antennae

Long caudal rami Extended, comb-

like maxillipeds

Order: Calanoida Family: Centropagidae

Limnocalanus macrurus

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Cyclopoid Copepods

Diacyclops thomasi

Short antennae Reach past cephalic segment, but not to genital segment

Outer setae not thicker spine

Lateral setae between middle and end third of rami

Order: Cyclopoida Family: Cyclopidae

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Outer setae modified into spine

Rami not elongate

Short antennae Reach past cephalic segment, but not to genital segment

Order: Cyclopoida Family: Cyclopidae

Eucyclops agilis

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Mesocyclops edax

Inner setae twice the length of ramus Inner setae

longer than ½ longest setae

Short antennae Reach past cephalic segment, but not to genital segment

Order: Cyclopoida Family: Cyclopidae

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