Monstrillidae

Monstrillidae
Monstrilla longiremis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Copepoda
Infraclass: Neocopepoda
Superorder: Podoplea
Order: Monstrilloida
G.O. Sars, 1901 
Family: Monstrillidae
Dana, 1849 

Monstrilloida is an order of copepods with a cosmopolitan distribution in the world's oceans. The order contains a single family, Monstrillidae. The name of the first ever described genus Monstrilla is derived from Latin, meaning "tiny monster", because the lack of usual diagnostic features of copepods puzzled early taxonomists.

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