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Centropagidae
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Centropagidae

Centropagidae is a family of copepods. Its members are particularly common as plankton in coastal waters and in fresh water in Australia and southern South America. They are also found on subantarctic islands and in lakes in Antarctica.

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9 branches of this family, most-observed first

Centropages

genusCentropages

Boeckella

genusBoeckella

Parabroteas

genusParabroteas

Isias

genusIsias

Limnocalanus

genusLimnocalanus

Sinocalanus

genusSinocalanus

Calamoecia

genusCalamoecia

Hemiboeckella

genusHemiboeckella

Osphranticum

genusOsphranticum

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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 85665.