Megacalanidae is a family of
copepods
Copepods (; meaning "oar-feet") are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat. Some species are planktonic (inhabiting sea waters), some are benthic (living on the ocean floor), a number of species have p ...
belonging to the order
Calanoida
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.
Description
Calanoids can be distinguis ...
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Genera:
* ''
Bathycalanus''
Sars, 1905
* ''
Bradycalanus''
Scott, 1909
* ''
Elenacalanus''
Bradford-Grieve, Blanco-Bercial & Boxshall, 2017
* ''
Megacalanus''
Wolfenden, 1904
References
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Copepods