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Aglaodiaptomus spatulocrenatus
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Maxillopoda
Subclass Copepoda
Order Calanoida
Family Diaptomidae
Distinguishing Characteristics
  • Each caudal ramus with five setae
  • Third segment from the end of the right antenna with a slender process which is curved and usually pointed. The process is shorter than the second segment from the end of the same antenna
  • Both processes of the left fifth exopod neither digitiform not blunt, one being distinctly falciform
  • Left fifth endpopod is not rudimentary nor is it marked with transverse striae
  • Right fifth endopod shorter that the first segment of the exopod
  • Terminal segment of the right fifth exopod slender and elongated
  • Specimen approximately 1 to 1.3 mm long.
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