Freshwater Crustacean Zooplankton of Europe: Cladocera & Copepoda (Calanoida, Cyclopoida) Key to Species Identification, with Notes on Ecology, Distri

ISBN-13: 9783319806747 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 918 str.

Leszek A. Bledzki; Jan Igor Rybak

Spis treści

Table of Contents

Part I

Introduction

Ecological features, coefficients and equations

Basic taxonomy

Methods

References

 

Part II Cladocera

Morphological Abbreviations

Introduction to Cladocera

Cladocera morphology

Classification

Characteristics of orders and families with a list of European genera and species

Alphabetical list of species with notes on synonyms, taxonomy, distribution and ecology

References

Key to Cladocera

 

Part III Copepoda (Calanoida, Cyclopoida)

Morphological Abbreviations

Introduction to Copepoda

Copepoda morphology

Classification

Characteristics of orders and families with a list of European genera and species

Alphabetical list of species

References

Key to Calanoida

Index 

O autorze

Leszek A. Bledzki, PhD 

Department of Biological Sciences

Mount Holyoke College

Massachusetts, USA

E-mail: lbledzki@mtholyoke.edu 

Jan Igor Rybak, PhD 

Department of Hydrobiology

Warsaw University, Poland

(Deceased)

Blurb

This work provides a user-friendly, species level taxonomic key based on morphology, current nomenclature, and modern taxonomy using molecular tools which fulfill the most pressing needs of both researchers and environmental managers. This key arms the reader with the tools necessary to improve their species identification abilities. This book resolves another issue as well: the mix of female and male characters used in keys to the calanoid copepods. Often, during the identification process, both calanoid copepod sexes are not available, and the user of such a key is stuck with an uncertain identification. Here, separate male and female keys to the calanoid copepods are provided for both the genera and species levels.