The abundance, distribution and diversity of epipelagic copepods were studied along the Egyptian Mediterranean Coast during April, August, 2008, February, 2009 and 2010. The geographical distribution and ecological affinities of the recorded species are

Identification for Farranula species has hitherto been carried out with reference to several fragmentary figures and incomplete descriptions of species from the temperate and tropical oceans. As a result, many identification errors such as mixing of

Simple Summary How the origin and pathways of water masses can be traced by particular bioindicators remains an intriguing issue in biological oceanography. In the present zooplankton study focusing on copepods, calanoid copepodites were most abundant,