Calanidae

Calanidae

Calanus finmarchicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Maxillopoda
Order:	Calanoida
Family:	Calanidae Dana, 1846
Genera
Bathycalanus Calanoides Calanus Canthocalanus Cosmocalanus Mesocalanus Nannocalanus Neocalanus Undinula

Calanidae is the largest taxonomic family of calanoid copepods. It includes the genus Calanus, which may be the most abundant metazoan genus on Earth.

Copepods of the genera Calanus and Neocalanus are ecologically important in the Arctic and subarctic regions of the world's oceans.