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Oithona
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Oithona

Oithona is a planktonic crustacean genus found in marine, brackish, fresh water environments. Oithona has been described as the most ubiquitous and abundant copepod in the world's oceans. It was first described by Baird in 1843 using the species Oithona plumifera as taxon type.

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7 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Oithona similis

speciesOithona similis

Oithona davisae

speciesOithona davisae

Oithona atlantica

speciesOithona atlantica

Oithona nana

speciesOithona nana

Oithona colcarva

speciesOithona colcarva

Oithona plumifera

speciesOithona plumifera

Oithona attenuata

speciesOithona attenuata

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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 203470.