The Faculty of Education for Pure Sciences at the University of Kerbala has discussed the M.A. thesis which is entitled (a phenotypic study of some types of order Calanoida Crustacea: Copepoda from the central region of Iraq).
The thesis presented by the student Hajar Muhammad Kazem Al-Memar, aims at conducting a detailed taxonomic study on the types of kalanoida in the water bodies of central Iraq and to the enrichment of the Iraqi animal group by registering or describing new species, describing and drawing the species, and establishing taxonomic keys for families, races and species under study.
The study shows that the family types Pseudodiaptomidae are the most widespread among the research sites that have been adopted during the research. It is found that the genus Pseudodiaptomus is distinguished by the abundance of its species present in the studied areas compared with other races, and that the importance of external phenotypes in the taxonomic process has been dependent on the external shape of the body and phenotypic characteristics Other external suffixes indicate their importance in the classification process.
The study emphasizes the necessity of conducting other taxonomic studies covering the regions of the central Euphrates governorates in particular and the governorates of Iraq in general, and giving importance to this group to conduct non-taxonomic studies because of their great role in the transmission of epidemics and diseases, especially the parasites and bacteria that cause cholera. They can be relied upon as indicators to measure salinity, pH, and temperature. They can also be relied upon as indications of the presence of water pollutants as they are considered an important environmental indicator.
