Food and trophic relationships of the developmental stages of marine copepods Euchaeta japonica marukawa and Calanus plumchrus marukawa
Journal: cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
Year: 2011

Studies of feeding of the life history stages of marine copepods Euchaeta japonica Marukawa and Calanus plumchrus Marukawa suggest that the first two naupliar stages of both species are non-feeding stages. Feeding starts with the third nauplius in both species. These and later stages feed readily on heat-killed, flagellates Dunaliella tertiolecta. The fifth and sixth nauplii of E. japonica and the fourth nauplius of C. plumchrus also feed on large diatoms; they were fed Ditylum brightwellii and