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Class · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Copepoda

copepods

WoRMS 1080ITIS 85257key worms:1080
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2026-08-05: itis_id 85257 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Platycopia perplexa

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 Copepoda
Photo · Thomas Mesaglio · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Copepods are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat.W CalCOFI holds 37,004 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2026, across 15 taxa under it.R

37,004
observations
42,544
records
1,818
sampling events
1951–2026
years
2
datasets
0
species under it

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.

Under it · 1 taxon

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 ZooScan (Imaged Zooplankton) table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/cce-lter_zooscan.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:1080%22