Abstract
During a plankton sampling conducted off the northeastern Mediterranean coast of Türkiye, a single female copepod, Caligus minimus Otto, 1821 was collected from a marine plankton sample. C. minimus is a well-known species of the genus Caligus O.F. Müller, 1785 which has been previously reported as a parasite from nine marine fish species belonging to eight different families. To date, however, C. minimus has never been reported from plankton samples. In this study, the general morphology based on the key diagnostic characters of the planktonic C. minimus is presented using confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM) images. This is the first report of C. minimus from plankton samples off Turkish waters and global marine environments.
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