Harpacticoida

Taxobox
name = Harpacticoida

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = Harpacticoid copepod
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Maxillopoda
subclassis = Copepoda
ordo = Harpacticoida
ordo_authority = G. O. Sars, 1903
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision = "See text"

Harpacticoida is an order of copepods, in the Subphylum Crustacea. This order comprises 463 genera and about 3,000 species. Members of it are benthic copepods found throughout the world in the marine environment (most families) and in fresh water (essentially the Ameiridae, Parastenocarididae and the Canthocamptidae). A few of them are planktonic or live in association with other organisms. Harpacticoida represents the second-largest meiofaunal group in marine sediment milieu, after nematodes.

Families

*Adenopleurellidae
*Aegisthidae
*Ambunguipedidae
*Ameiridae
*Ancorabolidae
*Argestidae
*Balaenophilidae
*Cancrincolidae
*Canthocamptidae
*Canuellidae
*Cerviniidae
*Chappuisiidae
*Cletodidae
*Cletopsyllidae
*Clytemnestridae
*Cristacoxidae
*Cylindropsyllidae
*Darcythompsoniidae
*Diosaccidae
*Ectinosomatidae
*Euterpinidae
*Hamondiidae
*Harpacticidae
*Huntemanniidae
*Laophontidae
*Laophontopsidae
*Latiremidae
*Leptastacidae
*Leptopontiidae
*Longipediidae
*Louriniidae
*Metidae
*Miraciidae
*Neobradyidae
*Normanellidae
*Novocriniidae
*Orthopsyllidae
*Paramesochridae
*Parastenheliidae
*Parastenocarididae
*Peltidiidae
*Phyllognathopodidae
*Porcellidiidae
*Pseudotachidiidae
*Rhizothricidae
*Rotundiclipeidae
*Styracothoracidae
*Superornatiremidae
*Tachidiidae
*Tegastidae
*Tetragonicipitidae
*Thalestridae
*Thompsonulidae
*Tisbidae

External Links

* [http://www.tafi.org.au/zooplankton/imagekey/copepoda/harpacticoida/index.html Harpacticoida, Guide to the marine zooplankton of south eastern Australia] , [http://www.tafi.org.au/ Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute]