Calanus

Translingual

Calanus finmarchicus

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Calanus (“an Indian philosopher (gymnosophist) in the time of Alexander the Great, who, in old age, burned himself on a funeral pile”).

Proper noun

Calanus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Calanidae – marine copepods, less than 5mm in length.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Crustacea - subphylum; Maxillopoda - class; Copepoda - subclass; Neocopepoda - infraclass; Gymnoplea - superorder; Calanoida - order; Calanidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Calanus finmarchicus - type species; for other species see Calanus at World Register of Marine Species .

Derived terms

• calanid
• Bathycalanus
• Calanoides
• Canthocalanus
• Cosmocalanus
• Mesocalanus
• Nannocalanus
• Streptocalanus
• Neocalanus

Further reading

• Calanus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Calanus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Calanus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Calanus at World Register of Marine Species
• Calanus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Calanus at National Center for Biotechnology Information