Cyclopoida
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2026-08-05: itis_id 88530 via WoRMS external link
The Cyclopoida are an order of small crustaceans from the class Copepoda. Like many other copepods, members of Cyclopoida are small, planktonic animals living both in the sea and in freshwater habitats.W CalCOFI holds 11,864 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2005 and 2026, across 2 taxa under it.R
- 11,864
- observations
- 11,864
- records
- 2005–2026
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 0
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Ergasilida most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1101")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:1101'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 2 taxa · Ergasilida most observed
- sO Ergasilida copepoda_poecilostomatoids5,932
- sO Oithonida5,932
Lineage 8 ranks · Biota to Podoplea
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · James Bernot · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Cyclopidae · source
- Photo · Nazarov Lev · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Cyclopoida” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1360002872
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.20
Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗