![]() ![]() ![]() We present the compilation of published and unpublished records of continental copepods of Colombia, as well as personal observations by the authors, yielding an additional list of 52 species and subspecies (7 calanoids, 20 cyclopoids, 25 harpacticoids). ![]() Most of them belong to orders Harpacticoida and Siphonostomatoida. The limited information existing about benthic and parasitic copepods warrants an increment on the study these groups. The lowest number corresponds to San Andrés and Providencia Archipelago (49). The highest copepod diversity corresponds to the ecoregion Colombian Oceanic (127 species), followed by Tayrona (94), Magdalena (82) and Morrosquillo (78). Nomenclature of the taxa was revised and updated as well. Most species are planktonic (201), while only a few are benthic (10) The inventory totals 214 species of copepods (158 Calanoida, 38 Cyclopoida, 15 Harpacticoida, 2 Mormonilloida and 1 Monstrilloida). Thirteen species reported by other researchers in publications after 2010 increased the species list. Ten species recorded in the already mentioned project are new records. As a baseline, we used the most recent inventory published by Medellín-Mora and Navas (2010). Twenty taxa reported solely in undergraduate thesis need taxonomical comprobation and were excluded from the inventory. Methods for updating included a critical compilation of records in published and unpublished articles, and our own results of a study of zooplankton in a project on bioinvasions of coastal waters, conducted in 2010. The aim of the study was to obtain a revised and updated checklist of the species of copepods of the Colombian Caribbean. ![]()
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