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calanoid, a. and n. Zool.|ˈkælənɔɪd|
[ad. mod.L. Calanoida (see below), f. Calanus, generic name (W. E. Leach 1819, in Dict. des Sciences Naturelles XIV. 539), after the L. name of an Indian philosopher of the 4th cent. b.c.: see -oid.]
(Designating) a copepod of the order or suborder Calanoida, comprising free-living, filter-feeding, planktonic animals found in all parts of the oceans and important as food for fishes.
1957D. T. Gauld in Nature 9 Feb. 325/2 A similar membrane can easily be shown to surround the fæcal pellets of calanoid copepods. 1964Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. II. 352 Among the calanoids, representatives of the following families have been found to be luminescent: Aetideidae, Lucicutiidae, [etc.]. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. II. 393/1 In biomass, the calanoids exceed all other copepod groups. 1979Nature 13 Dec. 677/2 The herbivorous zooplankton of upwelling areas and of temperate waters are typically calanoid copepods. |