High-Density Culture of Meiobenthic Harpacticoid Copepods Within a Muddy Sediment Substrate
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
- Vol. 43 (1), 53-59
- https://doi.org/10.1139/f86-007
Abstract
Difficulties in producing a muddy substrate which does not easily foul have made previous efforts to culture mud-inhabiting, estuarine, and marine harpacticoid copepods unsuccessful. Natural, organic-rich muds are unsuitable as a long-term culture medium because they generate detrimental bacterial blooms in stagnant and periodically flushed culture systems. I present some simple procedures to (1) sort muddy sediments into a 2): Scottolana canadensis (372), Paronychocamptus huntsmani (380), Onychocamptus mohammed (448), Cletocamptus deitersi (1259), and Nitocra lacustris (1662). Since most mud-inhabiting harpacticoids are larger than 125 μm, simple sieving on a 125-μm screen eliminates culture sediments leaving behing hundreds of clean, easily collected harpacticoids.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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