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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Calanidae

COPEPODA CALANOIDA CALANIDAE

WoRMS 104079ITIS 85259key worms:104079
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2026-08-05: itis_id 85259 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Calanus finmarchicus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Calanidae
Photo · Leïla Brunner · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Calanidae is the large family of copepods. It includes the genus Calanus, which may be the most abundant animal genus on Earth.W CalCOFI holds 720 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2010.R

720
observations
759
records
253
sampling events
1951–2010
years
1
datasets

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the ZooDB (Holoplankton Community) table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/cce-lter_zoodb.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:104079%22