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.
Species
カラヌス科
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassCopepoda
- OrderCalanoida
- FamilyCalanidae
Habitatmarine
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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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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.