Copilia

{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = FMIB 53333 Copilia vitrea, d'apres Giesbrecht (Fauna u Flora de Naples).jpeg

| image_caption = Copilia vitrea

| taxon = Copilia

| authority = Dana, 1849

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

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Copilia is a genus of copepods in the family Sapphirinidae. The eyes in members of this genus have two lenses, arranged like those in a telescope.{{cite journal |author=R. L. Gregory, H. E. Ross & N. Moray |year=1964 |title=The curious eye of Copilia |journal=Nature |volume=201 |issue=4925 |pages=1166–1168 |url=http://www.richardgregory.org/papers/copilia/curious-eye-copilia.pdf |pmid=14151358 |doi=10.1038/2011166a0|bibcode=1964Natur.201.1166G }}

Species

The genus Copilia contains the following species:{{cite web |author=T. Chad Walter & Geoff Boxshall |title=Copilia Dana, 1849 |editor=T. C. Walter & G. Boxshall |work=World Copepoda database |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=128721 |accessdate=February 10, 2011}}

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