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.

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