Free-living and Parasitic Copepods of the Laurentian Great Lakes: Keys and Details on Individual Species

This product reflects our belief that the taxonomy of even "difficult" groups can be made understandable, interesting, and informative, especially in this digital age.

Most of the information on the copepod fauna of the Great Lakes can be accessed directly from the Main Menu. To access information on identification nuances, distribution, life history, ecology, and synonymies for each species, there are two routes available. You can go to the Species List of Major Groups and Distribution Within the Great Lakes and in the table click on the name of the species in which you are interested, or you can click on the species name within the key when you reach the end of the identification process.