Calanoida
| Calanoida | |
|---|---|
| Unidentified species of copepod in the order Calanoida. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Copepoda |
| Infraclass: | Neocopepoda |
| Superorder: | Gymnoplea Giesbrecht, 1882 |
| 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.