''Calanus'' is a
genus
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of
marine
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copepod
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in the family
Calanidae (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 distinguish ...
). The genus was split in 1974, with some species being placed in a new genus, ''
Neocalanus''. The following species are recognised:
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Calanus aculeatus''
Brady, 1918
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Calanus agulhensis''
De Decker, Kaczmaruk & Marska, 1991
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Calanus chilensis''
Brodsky, 1959
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Calanus dorsalis''
(Rafinesque, 1817)
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Calanus euxinus''
Hulsemann, 1991
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Calanus finmarchicus
''Calanus finmarchicus'' is a species of copepods and a part of zooplankton, which is found in enormous amounts in the northern Atlantic Ocean.
Distribution and ecology
''Calanus finmarchicus'' is most commonly found in the North Sea and the Nor ...
''
(Gunnerus, 1770)
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Calanus glacialis''
Jaschnov, 1955
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Calanus helgolandicus''
(Claus, 1863)
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Calanus hyperboreus''
Krøyer, 1838
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Calanus jashnovi''
Hulsemann, 1994
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Calanus marshallae''
Frost, 1974
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Calanus pacificus''
Brodsky, 1948
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Calanus propinquus''
Brady, 1883
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Calanus simillimus''
Giesbrecht, 1902
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Calanus sinicus''
Brodsky, 1962
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Calanus torticornis''
(Brady, 1918)
References
Calanoida
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