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Calanoida is an order of copepods, a kind of zooplankton. They include 43 families with about 2000 species of both marine and freshwater copepods 2. Calanoid copepods are important in many food webs, taking in energy from phytoplankton and algae and 'repackaging' it for consumption by higher trophic level predators like birds, fishes and mammals. Many commercial fishes are dependent on calanoid copepods for diet in either their larval or adult forms. Baleen whales such as the bowhead whale eat copepods of the genera Calanus and Neocalanus, as do planktivorous seabirds like Crested Auklets, Least Auklets and Dovekies.
Classification
Calanoida contains the following families, and the genus Microdisseta, incertae sedis.
References
- ^ J. W. Martin & G. E. Davis (2001) (PDF). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. p. 132 pp. http://www.nhm.org/research/publications/CrustaceaClassification.pdf.
- ^ D. Boltovskoy, M. J. Gibbons, L. Hutchings & D. Binet (1999). "General biological features of the South Atlantic". in D. Boltovskoy. Zooplankton of the South Atlantic. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.
External links
- Calanoida fact sheet - Guide to the marine zooplankton of south eastern Australia
- Classification of Calanoida
- Key to calanoid copepod families
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