copepod

/koh-puh-pod/US // ˈkoʊ pəˌpɒd //UK // (ˈkəʊpɪˌpɒd) //

桡足动物,桡足类,桡足类动物,桡脚动物

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of numerous tiny marine or freshwater crustaceans of the order Copepoda, lacking compound eyes or a carapace and usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax, some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish.

Three of the slugs ditched their bodies along with a lot of those copepods.
Life styles vary, but some copepods attach themselves to sea slugs.
A bit like dogs getting fleas, sea slugs can be plagued by copepods.
The body of the typical copepod is distinctly segmented, and the head and thorax are both enclosed in a hardened buckler.
From the protopodites of both the latter spring strong hooks like those of the Copepod and Phyllopod Nauplii.
It still must pass through its life cycle, but its intermediate host need not be one species of snail, fish, or copepod.