Cyclopidae

{{Short description|Family of crustaceans}}

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| image = Cyclops bicuspidatus GLERL 1.jpg

| image_caption = Cyclops bicuspidatus
male (below) and egg-bearing female.
Scale bar is 1 millimetre.

| taxon = Cyclopidae

| authority = Rafinesque, 1815 

| synonyms =

  • Cyclopinae
  • Eucyclopinae

}}

Cyclopidae is a family of copepods containing more than half of the 1,200 species in the order Cyclopoida{{cite web |author=F. Stoch |year=2009 |title=Checklist of the Italian Copepods: Cyclopoida |url=http://www.luciopesce.net/gw/list1.html |access-date=April 7, 2009}} in over 70 genera.

Genera

These genera are accepted as valid:{{cite WoRMS |author=T. Chad Walter & Geoff Boxshall |year=2011 |title=Cyclopidae |db=Copepoda |id=106413 |access-date=September 2, 2011}}

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References

  • {{Commons category-inline|Cyclopidae}}
  • {{Wikispecies-inline}}

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Category:Copepod families

Category:Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque

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