Species Profile
Cyclops
Copepod
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassCrustacea
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Freshwater planktonic crustacean.
Named due to single median eye.
Size & Structure
01
Small cylindrical body
02
Single median eye
03
Long antennae
04
Egg sacs in females
Cyclops — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Present
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral symmetry
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete digestion
- Nervous system
- Ganglionic
- Excretory organ
- Antennal glands
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic (euryhaline)
- Circulatory type
- Type-I
- Development type
- Indirect development
- Respiratory type
- Cutaneous respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Absent
- Skeleton structure
- Exoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Part of freshwater plankton
Food for fishes
Controls micro-organisms
Economic Importance
Intermediate host of Dracunculus
Used in ecological studies
Water quality indicator