These marine crustaceans are very different and are the most abundant sea animals in the world's waterways. Copepod live in all types of water. They live in fresh water, salty environments, from caves beneath the salty sea, to the wastes of plants that abandon their leaves as litter on the ground and from fresh water waterways to the silt deposits in the open ocean. They inhabit areas of the tallest mountains to the deep ocean trenches. They also inhabit the cold polar waters to the heated ocean bottom vents.
Copepods are freeloaders living on the inside or outside on almost every plant or animal in water. The normal adults Copepod is about 3/4 of an inch long, some adult species shorter and others up to four inches. A common feature of the Copepod is a single eye. Most have the single eye in the larva stage. The name of phytoplankton that grow on the under surface of the ice is algae. Copepods will inhabit this algae. The small crustaceans like copepods eat plants of the Arctic. Ocean lice is a leech that attaches itself to fish and sucks the fish's blood are also Copepods.
Copepods means, "oar feet." Copepods are small, shrimp like sea animals that swim and inhabit all water ways throughout the world. Because of their tiny size, free living copepods can only eat small food items like bacteria and plankton. A positive action of Copepods is they eat harmful malaria carrying mosquito larvae aiding in the control of malaria. They use their legs to grasp and capture food like plankton and smaller copepods. After
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