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Family Polyphemoidea

Globe icon indicates link to a non-NOAA site.Family Profile - Cladocerans reported from the Thompson-Okanagan region

Polyphemus pediculus

Bird icon indicates link to a non-GLERL NOAA siteProfile - MN Sea Grant
Globe icon indicates link to a non-NOAA site.Profile - The Zooplankton of the Great Lakes - Central Michigan University
Globe icon indicates link to a non-NOAA site.Cladocerans of the Thompson-Okanagan region
Globe icon indicates link to a non-NOAA site.Profile - Bio-DiTRL - University of Alberta
Globe icon indicates link to a non-NOAA site.Waterfleas - Jan Parmentier & Wim van Egmond

 Inshore areas, at surface by night, by day usually within a few meters of surface but occassionally to 40 meters. A visually guided predator feeding on protozoans, rotifers and smaller cladocerans. In Great Lakes generally low densities <20 per cubic meter but occassionally to 100-1000 per cubic meter. Females may reach 2mm, males smaller.

Line drawing - Polyphemus pediculus

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Polyphemus pediculus courtesy of An Image-Based Key To The Zooplankton Of The Northeast (USA)

Globe icon indicates link to a non-NOAA site.An Image-Based Key To The Zooplankton Of The Northeast (USA)

 

1 of 4 photos of Polyphemus pediculus in the CMU collection

Globe icon indicates link to a non-NOAA site.The Zooplankton of the Great Lakes - Central Michigan University

Polyphemus pediculus - Courtesy of Wim van Egmond

Globe icon indicates link to a non-NOAA site.Waterfleas - Jan Parmentier & Wim van Egmond

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