Calanoida | |
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Unidentified species of copepod in the order Calanoida. | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Copepoda |
Superorder: | Gymnoplea Giesbrecht, 1882 [1] |
Order: | Calanoida Sars, 1903 |
Families | |
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Calanoida is an order of copepods, a group of arthropods commonly found as zooplankton. The order includes around 46 families with about 1800 species of both marine and freshwater copepods between them.[2]
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