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Calanidae
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Calanidae

Calanidae is the largest taxonomic family of calanoid copepods. It includes the genus Calanus, which may be the most abundant metazoan genus on Earth.

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8 branches of this family, most-observed first

Calanus

genusCalanus

Calanoides

genusCalanoides

Neocalanus

genusNeocalanus

Undinula

genusUndinula

Canthocalanus

genusCanthocalanus

Nannocalanus

genusNannocalanus

Cosmocalanus

genusCosmocalanus

Mesocalanus

genusMesocalanus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 201757.