{{Short description|Family of crustaceans}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = A monograph of the free and semi-parasitic Copepoda of the British islands (Plate I) (7636944936).jpg | image_caption = ''Calanus finmarchicus'' | taxon = Calanidae | authority = Dana, 1849 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision_ref = | subdivision = see text }}
'''Calanidae''' is the large family of 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.<ref name="Conover 1988"/>
==Genera==
The family contains the following genera:<ref>{{BioRef|WoRMS|title=Calanidae Dana, 1849 |id=104079 |db=World of Copepods Database |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>
*''Calanoides'' {{small|Brady, 1883}} *''Calanus'' {{small|Leach, 1816}} *''Canthocalanus'' {{small|Scott A., 1909}} *''Cosmocalanus'' {{small|Bradford & Jillett, 1974}} *''Mesocalanus'' {{small|Bradford & Jillett, 1974}} *''Metranura'' {{small|Brady, 1915}} *''Nannocalanus'' {{small|Sars G.O., 1925}} *''Neocalanus'' {{small|Sars G.O., 1925}} *''Undinula'' {{small|Scott A., 1909}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Conover 1988">{{cite journal|last1=Conover|first1=R. J.|title=Comparative life histories in the genera ''Calanus'' and ''Neocalanus'' in high latitudes of the northern hemisphere|journal=Hydrobiologia|date=1988|volume=167-168|issue=1|pages=127–142|doi=10.1007/BF00026299|bibcode=1988HyBio.167..127C }}</ref> }}
== External links == * {{Wikispecies-inline}} * [https://researchdata.ands.org.au/guide-marine-zooplankton-eastern-australia/563941 Guide to the marine zooplankton of south eastern Australia]
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Category:Calanoida Category:Taxa named by James Dwight Dana Category:Copepod families
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