Copepoda
Suggested reading

Available literature on copepod morphology, anatomy, phylogeny, life histories ecology and biology is very extensive. Copepod specialists are usually specialized in more or less narrow aspects of the study of these animals; thus, those involved in studies of their biology, life cycles or, for example, molecular biology, are usually not taxonomists, whereas taxonomists may employ a limited range of techniques, often excluding such approaches as DNA analysis, statistical methods, etc. However, sooner or later every student has to deal with taxonomic problems which he (or she) is often not trained to solve, at which point the availability of information aimed at helping to tackle these difficulties becomes crucial. Publications containing basic information are mentioned in this chapter in the Introduction. The terminology adopted here for the description of the external morphology of copepods follows Huys and Boxshall (1991). This book is recommended for its modern views on copepod morphology and contains a historical review of the main publications on copepods. Classical publications on the classification of copepods, either original or of a review nature are: Giesbrecht (1892), Sars (1901-1903, 1924, 1924-25), Scott A. (1909), Wolfenden (1911), Rose (1933), Lang (1948), Sewell (1947), Brodsky (1950), Owre and Foyo (1967). During the last decades several manuals on regional copepod faunas or revisions of selected copepod families have been published (Vervoort, 1949, 1951, 1957, 1963, 1965; Tanaka, 1956, 1957a,b, 1958, 1960, 1960, 1964a, b, 1969; Tanaka and Omori, 1969, 1970; Heptner, 1971; Matthews, 1972; Damkaer, 1975; Roe, 1975; Park, 1978, 1980, 1982; 1983a, b, 1995; Bradford and Jillett, 1980; Bjornberg, 1981; Bradford et al., 1983; Heron et al., 1984; Nishida, 1985; Bradford-Grieve, 1994; Hernandez and Suarez Morales, 1994; Ohtsuka et al., 1994; Heron and Bradford-Grieve, 1995; Hülsemann, 1966; Markhaseva, 1996), among others.