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BOTH marine and freshwater copepods have, with one exception from the high arctic1, generally been regarded as having a life-cycle of one year or less. A study of the freshwater planktonic copepod Cyclops scutifer Sars now in progress in Scandinavia and in North America has shown, however, that this species has a 3-year cycle in a small lake near Oslo, Norway.
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ELGMORK, K. A Triennial Copepod (Crustacea) in the Temperate Zone. Nature 205, 413 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205413a0
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