zooplankton
Plankton or planktonic constituent composed of small animals such as crustaceans and larval fishes.
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Ichthyological terms, not general ones.
copepod
Any member of the subclass Copepoda, a group of small marine and freshwater crustaceans of which the planktonic species are important to global ecology, forming the main constituent of oceanic zooplankton. Some species are parasites of fishes.
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