Calanidae

Calanidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Maxillopoda
Subclass:	Copepoda
Order:	Calanoida
Family:	Calanidae; Dana, 1846
Genera
	Bathycalanus; Bradyetes; Calanoides; Calanus; Canthocalanus; Cosmocalanus; Eucalanus; Neocalanus; Pseudocalanus

Calanidae is the largest taxonomic family of calanoid copepods. It includes the genus Calanus, which may be the most abundant animal genus on Earth. Copepods of the genera Calanus and Neocalanus are ecologically important in the Arctic and subarctic regions of the world's oceans.

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