Gulf and Caribbean Research

Alternate Title

Seasonal Occurrence of the Pelagic Copepoda in Mississippi Sound

Authors

Thomas D. McIlwain, Gulf Coast Research LaboratoryFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Collections of planktonic copepods from Mississippi Sound were made from January 1965 to March 1966. The following fifteen free­ living copepods were identified: Eucalanus pileatus, Paracalanus par­vus, Centropages hamatus, Centropages furcatus, Temora stylifera, Temora longicornis, Labidocera aestiva, Labidocera species, Acartia tonsa, Oithona brevicornis, Oithona species, Oncaea venusta, Cory­caeus species, Sappharina nigromaculata and Euterpina acutifrons.

It was found that there is a definite seasonal distribution of cope­pods in Mississippi Sound with peak populations of copepods occu­rring in the spring, summer and fall.

First Page

257

Last Page

271

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.18785/grr.0203.02

Recommended Citation

McIlwain, T. D. 1968. Seasonal Occurrence of the Pelagic Copepoda in Mississippi Sound. Gulf Research Reports 2 (3): 257-271.
Retrieved from https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr/vol2/iss3/2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18785/grr.0203.02