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Copepoda (water flea)
Free-living freshwater & marine crustaceans, including:
1) water fleas
2) parasites of fish &/or aquatic mammals.
-> fish lice, Argulus
3) intermediate hosts of the tapeworm Diphyllobothrium latum & of the nematode Dracunculus medinensis
General
crustacean
Properties
KINGDOM: animal
PHYLUM: arthropod
ORGANISM-CLASS: crustacean
ORDER: Copepoda
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.