Taxonomy of phytal harpacticoid copepods from Terengganu coast

Abstract

The objectives of this research were i) to do a taxanomic identification on the dominant species of harpacticoid copepod associated with seaweed and seagrass; and ii) to investigate the abundance of harpacticoid copepod in different vegetation area. A study on the taxonomy and of phytal meiobenthic harpacticoid copepods jeund in coastal water of east coast of Peninsular Malaysia was conducted from July 2003 to February 2004. The taxonomic study was carried out using pecimens collected from Perhentian Island and Setiu Wetland, by scrap sampling and core sampling. A total of 5 species, representing 5 genera from 4 families of harpacticoid copepods were identified.