Cletocamptus helobius
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Cletocamptus helobius is a species of copepod
that lives in the waters of North America
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One of 29 species in the genus Cletocamptus
, it was first described by John W. Fleeger in 1980. The species has been used in a study of the evolution of the DNA of the related species Cletocamptus deitersi.
Copepod
Copepods are a group of small crustaceans found in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat. Some species are planktonic , some are benthic , and some continental species may live in limno-terrestrial habitats and other wet terrestrial places, such as swamps, under leaf fall in wet forests,...
that lives in the waters of North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
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One of 29 species in the genus Cletocamptus
Cletocamptus
Cletocamptus is a genus of marine and brackish-water copepods, containing the following species:*Cletocamptus affinis Kiefer, 1957*Cletocamptus albuquerquensis *Cletocamptus assimilis Gómez & Gee, 2009...
, it was first described by John W. Fleeger in 1980. The species has been used in a study of the evolution of the DNA of the related species Cletocamptus deitersi.