Appendix 6.3(32). Components of the zooplankton recorded for 

 Louisiana Inland Open Water Habitat. 



Brackish water 



Zooplankton : (from Bouchard and Turner 1976, Lafourche Parish; Denoux, 1976, 

 Calcasieu estuary) 



Protozoa 



Coelenterata 



Ctenophora 



Rotif era 



Nematoda 



Mollusca 



Gastropoda (larvae) 

 Pelecypoda (larvae) 



Annelida 



Polychaeta 

 Nereidae 



Nereis succinea 

 Nearthes succinia 



Oligochaeta 



Hirudinea 



Arthropoda 

 Crustacea 



Cladocera (water fleas) 

 Alona sp. 

 Ostracoda 

 Copepoda 



Calanoida (from Denoux, 1976, Calcasieu estuary) 

 Calanidae 



Eucalanus pileatus 

 Rhincalanus cornutus 

 Paracalanidae 



Paracalanus aculeatus 



Paracalanus crassirostris 

 Centropagidae 



Centropages hamatus 



Centropages velif icatus 



Osphranticum labronectum 

 Diaptomidae 



Diaptomus dorsalis 



P_. reighardi 



p_. siciloides 



p_. signicauda 



Diaptomus sp . 



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