Calanus
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Calanus finmarchicus
Translingual
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
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
