The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·201781GenusAnimalia196 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Arthropods
  3. ›Crustaceans
  4. ›Typical Crustaceans
  5. ›Barnacles and Copepods
  6. ›Copepods
  7. ›Neocopepoda
  8. ›Gymnoplea
  9. ›Calanoid Copepods
  10. ›Calanidae
Calanus
Plate 1 of 6. (c) Aleksandr Novikov, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Aleksandr Novikov · via iNaturalist

Calanus

Calanus is a genus of marine copepod in the family Calanidae (Order Calanoida). The genus was split in 1974, with some species being placed in a new genus, Neocalanus. The following species are recognised:

Continue reading on Wikipedia

8 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Calanus glacialis

speciesCalanus glacialis

Calanus hyperboreus

speciesCalanus hyperboreus

Calanus finmarchicus

speciesCalanus finmarchicus

Calanus marshallae

speciesCalanus marshallae

Calanus pacificus

speciesCalanus pacificus

Calanus helgolandicus

speciesCalanus helgolandicus

Calanus simillimus

speciesCalanus simillimus

Calanus sinicus

speciesCalanus sinicus

See this branch on the Wheel of Life →
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Calanus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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 201781.