Calanus
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Calanus m
Hypernyms edit
- (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 edit
- (genus): Calanus finmarchicus - type species; for other species see Calanus at World Register of Marine Species .
Derived terms edit
- calanid
- Bathycalanus
- Calanoides
- Canthocalanus
- Cosmocalanus
- Mesocalanus
- Nannocalanus
- Streptocalanus
- Neocalanus
Further reading edit
- 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 Encyclopedia of Life
- Calanus at National Center for Biotechnology Information