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Calanoid Copepods
Calanoida
Calanoida is an order of copepods, a kind of zooplankton. They include around 40 families with about 1800 species of both marine and freshwater copepods. Calanoid copepods are dominant in the plankton in many parts of the world's oceans, making up 55%–95% of plankton samples. They are therefore important in many food webs, taking in energy from phytoplankton and algae and 'repackaging' it for consumption by higher trophic level predators. Many commercial fish are dependent on...
40 branches of this order, most-observed first
Diaptomidae
familyDiaptomidae
Calanidae
familyCalanidae
Temoridae
familyTemoridae
Acartiidae
familyAcartiidae
Pontellidae
familyPontellidae
Centropagidae
familyCentropagidae
Euchaetidae
familyEuchaetidae
Paracalanidae
familyParacalanidae
Metridinidae
familyMetridinidae
Eucalanidae
familyEucalanidae
Clausocalanidae
familyClausocalanidae
Tortanidae
familyTortanidae
Pseudodiaptomidae
familyPseudodiaptomidae
Candaciidae
familyCandaciidae
Aetideidae
familyAetideidae
Augaptilidae
familyAugaptilidae
Scolecitrichidae
familyScolecitrichidae
Megacalanidae
familyMegacalanidae
Spinocalanidae
familySpinocalanidae
Heterorhabdidae
familyHeterorhabdidae
Rhincalanidae
familyRhincalanidae
Pseudocyclopidae
familyPseudocyclopidae
Lucicutiidae
familyLucicutiidae
Phaennidae
familyPhaennidae
Nullosetigeridae
familyNullosetigeridae
Mesaiokeratidae
familyMesaiokeratidae
Pseudocyclopiidae
familyPseudocyclopiidae
Epacteriscidae
familyEpacteriscidae
Stephidae
familyStephidae
Tharybidae
familyTharybidae
Arctokonstantinidae
familyArctokonstantinidae
Parapontellidae
familyParapontellidae
Diaixidae
familyDiaixidae
Kyphocalanidae
familyKyphocalanidae
Rostrocalanidae
familyRostrocalanidae
Discoidae
familyDiscoidae
Ryocalanidae
familyRyocalanidae
Fosshageniidae
familyFosshageniidae
Arietellidae
familyArietellidae
Bathypontiidae
familyBathypontiidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 85507.