Platycopiidae | |
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Platycopia perplexa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Copepoda |
Infraclass: | Progymnoplea Lang, 1948 |
Order: | Platycopioida Fosshagen, 1985 |
Family: | Platycopiidae G. O. Sars, 1911 |
Genera | |
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Platycopiidae is a family of copepods. Until the description of Nanocopia in 1988, it contained the single genus Platycopia.[1] It now contains four genera, three of which are monotypic; the exception is Platycopia, with 8 species.