Tags: Crustacean.
This article is about the crustacean. See Cyclops (disambiguation) for other meanings.Cyclops is one of the most common genera of freshwater copepods comprising over 400 species . Together with other similar-sized non-copepod fresh-water crustaceans especially cladocera they are commonly called water fleas. The name Cyclops comes from the Cyclops of Greek mythology which shares the quality of having a single large eye which may be either red or black in Cyclops.
