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Excerpt from Reports of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18, Vol. 7: Crustacea
Cyclops capillatus has before this only been known from Scandinavia.
Taking the material as a whole, it is noticeable that it bears a striking resemblance to the fauna Of northern Europe and Asia, but that the two faunas are not identical. Even in the circumpolar regions, the entomostracan faunas of the eastern and western continents are differentiated from each other. This is due, doubtless, to the lack of continuity in land surfaces, for, as shown elsewhere, copepods are largely dependent on water carriage for their distribution, so that fresh water Copepods will be limited in their distribution to the Opportunities offered by contiguous bodies of fresh water.
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