Calanoid Copepods

Calanoida Sars G. O. 1903

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Calanoida (Calanoid Copepods) is an order of copepods. There are 2609 species of Calanoid Copepods, in 306 genera and 36 families. It includes groups like Megacalanidae, Eucalanidae, and Centropagidae. They are omnivores. They rely on drag powered swimming to move around.

URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q164509
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Attribution: Crustacean body sizes

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URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/drag_based_swimming
Definition: Drag swimmers use a cyclic motion where they push water back in a power stroke, and return their limb forward in the return or recovery stroke. When they push water directly backwards, this moves their body forward, but as they return their limbs to the starting position, they push water forward, which will thus pull them back to some degree, and so opposes the direction that the body is heading. This opposing force is called drag. The return-stroke drag causes drag swimmers to employ different strategies than lift swimmers. Reducing drag on the return stroke is essential for optimizing efficiency.

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EOL has data for 11 attributes, including:

Body symmetry
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
- Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry
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bilaterally symmetric
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
- Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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is eaten by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002471
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Gadus chalcogrammus Pallas 1814 (Alaska pollock)
cellularity
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
- Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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multicellular
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
- Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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locomotion
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0040011
- Definition: Self-propelled movement of a cell or organism from one location to another.
- Attribution: [database_cross_reference: GOC:dgh]
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escape response
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5397078
- Definition: rapid series of movements performed by an animal in response to possible predation
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trophic guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicGuild
- Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)
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phytoplanktivore
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/phytoplanktivore
- Definition: A herbivorous organism feeding primarily on phytoplankton
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trophic level
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1053008
- Definition: position of an organism in a food web. May be described verbally with descriptors including primary producer, herbivore or carnivore. If described numerically, 1 indicates a primary producer, 2 a herbivore, and so on up the food web.
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omnivore
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q164509
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- Attribution: Crustacean body sizes
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visual system
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002104
- Definition: The sensory system subserving the sense of vision.
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nauplius eye
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0015170
- Definition: An eye that consists of a cluster of three or four pit eyes that form a single structural unit but are separated from one another by pigment layers
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Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Calanoid copepods. View this species on GBIF

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Calanoid Copepods

Calanoida Sars G. O. 1903

Calanoid copepods includes 36 children: