Marine Zooplankton Groups

Kingdom Phylum Zooplankton Taxa
(Class or Order)		  Description

Figure

 Image source
Protozoa Protozoa Foraminifera single-celled, shelled amoeba foram.jpg (3594 bytes) io.uwinnipeg.ca
Actinopoda Acantharea radiolarian protozoa rad.jpg (2486 bytes) biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca
Retaria Polycystinea (rads) radiolarian protozoa Phaeodarea.jpg (72281 bytes) pt.wikipedia.org
Cercozoa Phaeodarea (rads) shelled amoeba protozoa
Ciliophora Ciliata (aloricate) aloricate ciliates ciliates.jpg (2208 bytes)  www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca

 
    Tintinnida tintinnids (loricate ciliates)
Animalia Cnidaria Hydrozoa hydroid, jellyfish hydrozoa.jpg (3271 bytes) www.ville-ge.ch
Siphonophora colonial jellies siph.jpg (2664 bytes) www.ville-ge.ch
Cubomedusae/
 Cubozoa		 box jellyfish boxjelly.jpg (3022 bytes) uk.wikipedia.org
Scyphomedusae/ Scyphozoa true jellyfish scyphozoa.jpg (1381 bytes) www.iopan.gda.pl
Ctenophora Ctenophora comb jelly ctenophore.jpg (2843 bytes) www.ibss.iuf.net
Rotifera Rotifera tiny, multicellular, wheel of cilia around mouth rotifer.jpg (2610 bytes) biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca
Platyhelminthes Platyhelminthes flat worms Platyhelminthes.jpg (2551 bytes) biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca
Nematomorpha Nectonema horsehair worms Nectonema.jpg (2502 bytes) http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca
Nemertea Nemertinea ribbon worms Nemertinea.jpg (3945 bytes) biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca
Annelida Polychaeta segmented worms www.ima.uco.fr
Mollusca Heteropoda laterally compressed pelagic snails www.vims.edu
Pteropoda sea butterflies pteropod.jpg (3497 bytes) srufaculty.sru.edu
Nudibranchia sea slugs nudibranch.jpg (1515 bytes) www.ecy.wa.gov
Cephalopoda squid, octopods squid.jpg (2500 bytes) www.oceaninn.com
Arthropoda -Crustacea Cladocera water fleas cladocera.jpg (3891 bytes) www.galaxynet.com
Ostracoda seed shrimp ostracod.jpg (1530 bytes) www.miljolare.no
Isopoda isopods, pill bugs www.thefreedictionary.com
Copepoda copepods copepod.jpg (1254 bytes) www.alleco.fi
Mysidacea mysids mysid.jpg (3480 bytes) www.crustacea.net
Amphipoda shrimp-like crustacean amphipod.jpg (2294 bytes) www.state.ky.us
Euphausiacea krill euphausiid.jpg (1610 bytes) www.solaster-mb.org
Decapoda shrimp shrimp.jpg (2571 bytes) www.shim.bc.ca
Chaetognatha Chaetognatha arrow worms chaet.jpg (1698 bytes) ip30.eti.uva.nl
Chordata Appendicularia larvaceans larvacean.jpg (3085 bytes) www.scielo.cl
Pyrosoma free-floating, ciliated, bioluminescent tunicates pyrosoma.jpg (1467 bytes) www.mer-littoral.org
Doliolida barrel-shaped tunicate doliolid.jpg (2609 bytes) science.kennesaw.edu
Salpida barrel-shaped tunicate salp.jpg (2258 bytes) www.jochemnet.de