Paracalanidae
Encyclopedia
Paracalanidae is a family
of copepod
s. It contains the following genera:
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
of copepod
Copepod
Copepods are a group of small crustaceans found in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat. Some species are planktonic , some are benthic , and some continental species may live in limno-terrestrial habitats and other wet terrestrial places, such as swamps, under leaf fall in wet forests,...
s. It contains the following genera:
- Acrocalanus Giesbrecht, 1888
- Bestiolina Andronov, 1991
- Delibus Vives & Shmelava, 2007
- Paracalanus Boeck, 1865
- Parvocalanus Andronov, 1970
- Pseudoparacalanus Robinson, 1948