Tags: Crustacean.
Epischura baikalensis is a species of copepod in family Temoridae. It is endemic to Lake Baikal being the dominant zooplankton species there: 80%–90% of total biomass.Epischura baikalensis inhabits the entire water column and produces two generations per year: the winter–spring and the summer. These copepods develop under different ecological conditions and vary in the duration of life stages reproduction time maturation of sex products and adult males and females lifespan.