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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Metridinidae

COPEPODA CALANOIDA METRIDINIDAE

WoRMS 104092ITIS 593501key worms:104092
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2026-08-05: itis_id 593501 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Élodie JACOB · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Metridia longa longa

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 Metridinidae
Photo · Charlotte Seid · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Metridinidae is a family of copepods, comprising three genera – Gaussia, Metridia and Pleuromamma.W CalCOFI holds 749 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2010.R

749
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:104092%22