Calanidae
Sign in to saveCalanidae is the large family of copepods. It includes the genus Calanus, which may be the most abundant animal genus on Earth.
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It sits within the topics Calanoida, Copepod families and Taxa named by James Dwight Dana.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
カラヌス科
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassCopepoda
- OrderCalanoida
- FamilyCalanidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 20
- Family
- Calanidae
- Collections
- YPM, USNM, MUSEU NACIONAL/UFRJ, FMNH, SBMNH, AM
- Recorded in
- United States, Brasil, Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Calanoida
- Image
- A monograph of the free and semi-parasitic Copepoda of the British islands (Plate I) (7636944936).jpg
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- taxon name
- Calanidae
- taxon rank
- family
- topic's main category
- Category:Calanidae
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- Calanidae
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Genera
- References
- External links
Calanidae is the large family of copepods. It includes the genus Calanus, which may be the most abundant animal genus on Earth.
Copepods of the genera Calanus and Neocalanus are ecologically important in the Arctic and subarctic regions of the world's oceans.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Calanidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.