Marine Zooplankton Groups

Kingdom	Phylum	Zooplankton Taxa (Class or Order)	Description	Figure	Image source
Protozoa	Protozoa	Foraminifera	single-celled, shelled amoeba		io.uwinnipeg.ca
	Actinopoda	Acantharia	radiolarian protozoa		biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca
	Retaria	Polycystinia (rads)	radiolarian protozoa		pt.wikipedia.org
	Cercozoa	Phaeodaria (rads)	shelled amoeba protozoa
	Ciliophora	Ciliata (aloricate)	aloricate ciliates		www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
		Tintinnina	tintinnids (loricate ciliates)
Animalia	Cnidaria	Hydrozoa	hydroid, jellyfish		www.ville-ge.ch
		Siphonophora	colonial jellies		www.ville-ge.ch
		Cubomedusae/  Cubozoa	box jellyfish		uk.wikipedia.org
		Scyphomedusae/ Scyphozoa	true jellyfish		www.iopan.gda.pl
	Ctenophora	Ctenophora	comb jelly		www.ibss.iuf.net
	Rotifera	Rotifera	tiny, multicellular, wheel of cilia around mouth		biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca
	Platyhelminthes	Platyhelminthes	flat worms		biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca
	Nematomorpha	Nectonema	horsehair worms		http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca
	Nemertea	Nemertinea	ribbon worms		biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca
	Annelida	Polychaeta	segmented worms		www.ima.uco.fr
	Mollusca	Heteropoda	laterally compressed pelagic snails		www.vims.edu
		Pteropoda	sea butterflies		srufaculty.sru.edu
		Nudibranchia	sea slugs		www.ecy.wa.gov
		Cephalopoda	squid, octopods		www.oceaninn.com
	Arthropoda -Crustacea	Cladocera	water fleas		www.galaxynet.com
		Ostracoda	seed shrimp		www.miljolare.no
		Isopoda	isopods, pill bugs		www.thefreedictionary.com
		Copepoda	copepods		www.alleco.fi
		Mysidacea	mysids		www.crustacea.net
		Amphipoda	shrimp-like crustacean		www.state.ky.us
		Euphausiacea	krill		www.solaster-mb.org
		Decapoda	shrimp		www.shim.bc.ca
	Chaetognatha	Chaetognatha	arrow worms		ip30.eti.uva.nl
	Chordata	Appendicularia	larvaceans		www.scielo.cl
		Pyrosoma	free-floating, ciliated, bioluminescent tunicates		www.mer-littoral.org
		Doliolida	barrel-shaped tunicate		science.kennesaw.edu
		Salpida	barrel-shaped tunicate		www.jochemnet.de