Cyclopidae | |
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Cyclops bicuspidatus male (below) and egg-bearing female. Scale bar is 1 millimetre. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Copepoda |
Order: | Cyclopoida |
Suborder: | Cyclopida |
Family: | Cyclopidae Rafinesque, 1815 [1] |
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Cyclopidae is a family of copepods containing more than half of the 1,200 species in the order Cyclopoida[2] in over 70 genera.
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