Australian Institute of Marine Science – Summer planktonic communities of North West Cape, Western Australia

Over 120 species of copepods were identified: 60 species of calanoid copepods and 5 harpacticoid copepods. Familes (number of species) were: Aetideidae (1), Arcartiidae (5), Augaptilidae (2), Calanidae (5), Candaciidae (5), Centropagidae (2), Clausocalanidae (7), Clytemnestridae (1), Coryacaeidae (22), Ectinosomatidae (1), Eucalidae (5), Euchaetidae (2), Euterpinidae (1), Lubbokcidae (1), Lucicutiidae (2), Mecynoceridae (1), Metridinidae (2), Miraciidae (1), Oithonidae (11), Oncaeidae (19), Paracalanidae (15), Pontellidae (5), Pseudodiaptomidae (3), Rhincalanidae (1), Sapphirinidae (2), Scolecitrichidae (2), Temoridae (2), Tisbidae (1), Tortanidae (1).

Data includes information about years, stations (4 off-shore, and 4 inshore, along a cross-shelf transect), the seasons spring (October and November) and summer (December to February) Additional information (not presented here) - Measurements of zooplankton communities (abundances and biomass). Environmental variables were temperature, salinity, density, chlorophyll a and >73µm plankton biomass Total Distribution Records : 1362 Total Number of Taxa : 106 species, 47 genera