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Genus of crustaceans From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Calanidae is the largest taxonomic family of calanoid copepods. It includes the genus Calanus, which may be the most abundant metazoan genus on Earth.
Calanidae | |
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Calanus finmarchicus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Copepoda |
Order: | Calanoida |
Family: | Calanidae Dana, 1849 |
Genera | |
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Copepods of the genera Calanus and Neocalanus are ecologically important in the Arctic and subarctic regions of the world's oceans.[1]
The family contains the following genera:[2]
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