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Monstrilloida
Order of crustaceans / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Monstrilloida is an order of copepods with a cosmopolitan distribution in the world's oceans. The order contains a single family, Monstrillidae.[1] The name of the first ever described genus Monstrilla is derived from latin, meaning "tiny monster", because the lack of usual diagnostic features of copepods puzzled early taxonomists.[3]
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Monstrilloida | |
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Monstrilla longiremis | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Copepoda |
Infraclass: | Neocopepoda |
Superorder: | Podoplea |
Order: | Monstrilloida G. O. Sars, 1901 [1] |
Family: | Monstrillidae Dana, 1849 [2] |
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