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The global diversity of free-living (non-parasitic) copepods is estimated to be around 2814 freshwater species out of around 11,500 morphospecies mostly found in marine environments (Humes 1994; Balian et al. 2008). These authors estimated the presence of 1204 species in the Palearctic area. The European part consists of around 25 % of the Palearctic area and the 158 copepod species described here in our key make up slightly less than 15 % of the total number of species estimated for the Palearctic, including both surface and subsurface species.
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Błędzki, L.A., Rybak, J.I. (2016). Introduction to Copepoda. In: Freshwater Crustacean Zooplankton of Europe . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29871-9_13
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