Calanidae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Hexanauplia
- Order
- Calanoida
- Family
- Calanidae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Calanidae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Calanidae
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.
...Calanidae in languages:
- Japanese
- カラヌス科
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Acartiidae
- Aetideidae
- Arctokonstantinidae
- Arietellidae
- Augaptilidae
- Bathypontiidae
- Calanidae
- Candaciidae
- Centropagidae
- Clausocalanidae
- Diaixidae
- Diaptomidae
- Discoidae
- Epacteriscidae
- Eucalanidae
- Euchaetidae
- Fosshageniidae
- Heterorhabdidae
- Kyphocalanidae
- Lucicutiidae
- Megacalanidae
- Mesaiokeratidae
- Metridinidae
- Nullosetigeridae
- Paracalanidae
- Parapontellidae
- Phaennidae
- Pontellidae
- Pseudocyclopidae
- Pseudocyclopiidae
- Pseudodiaptomidae
- Rhincalanidae
- Rostrocalanidae
- Ryocalanidae
- Scolecitrichidae
- Spinocalanidae
- Stephidae
- Temoridae
- Tharybidae
- Tortanidae