“…It is also a coastal upwelling zone (Okuda, 1975;Alvera-Azcárate et al, 2009;Rueda-Roa and Muller-Karger, 2013). Studies on the specific composition, abundance and spatiotemporal distribution of zooplankton are available for various environments of the northeastern coast, such as the Mochima Bay (Márquez et al, 2007(Márquez et al, , 2008Marcano et al, 2010), the Cariaco Basin (Márquez et al, 2009) and the Gulf of Cariaco (Legaré, 1961;Zoppi 1961;Marín et al, 2004;Márquez et al, 2006b;2011). However, the information available for the Arapito-Santa Fe coast is scarce.…”