Phaennidae
Family of crustaceans
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Phaennidae is a family of planktonic copepods, found in pelagic or benthopelagic waters.[1] In 2010, Bradford-Grieve and others gave a cladistic analysis placing it as a sister clade to the family Tharybidae.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Copepoda |
| Order: | Calanoida |
| Family: | Phaennidae G. O. Sars, 1902 |
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It contains the following genera:[3][1]
- Brachycalanus Farran, 1905
- Cephalophanes Sars, 1907
- Cornucalanus Wolfenden, 1905
- Kirnesius Markhaseva & Semenova, 2005
- Onchocalanus Sars, 1905
- Phaenna Claus, 1863
- Phaennocalanus Markhaseva, 2002
- Talacalanus Wolfenden, 1911
- Xanthocalanus Giesbrecht, 1892
