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Families
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There are 54 families:
- Adenopleurellidae
- Aegisthidae
- Ambunguipedidae
- Ameiridae
- Ancorabolidae
- Argestidae
- Balaenophilidae
- Cancrincolidae
- Canthocamptidae
- Canuellidae
- Cerviniidae
- Chappuisiidae
- Cletodidae
- Cletopsyllidae
- Clytemnestridae
- Cristacoxidae
- Cylindropsyllidae
- Darcythompsoniidae
- Diosaccidae
- Ectinosomatidae
- Euterpinidae
- Hamondiidae
- Harpacticidae
- Huntemanniidae
- Laophontidae
- Laophontopsidae
- Latiremidae
- Leptastacidae
- Leptopontiidae
- Longipediidae
- Louriniidae
- Metidae
- Miraciidae
- Neobradyidae
- Normanellidae
- Novocriniidae
- Orthopsyllidae
- Paramesochridae
- Parastenheliidae
- Parastenocarididae
- Peltidiidae
- Phyllognathopodidae
- Porcellidiidae
- Pseudotachidiidae
- Rhizothricidae
- Rotundiclipeidae
- Styracothoracidae
- Superornatiremidae
- Tachidiidae
- Tegastidae
- Tetragonicipitidae
- Thalestridae
- Thompsonulidae
- Tisbidae
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Harpacticoida is an order of the subclass Copepoda, in the Crustacea subphylum. This orders comprises 463 genera and about 3000 species. Members of it are benthic copepods found throughout the world in the marine environment (most families) and in freshwater (essentially the Ameiridae, Parastenocarididae and the Canthocamptidae). A few of them are planktonic or live in association with other organisms. Harpacticoids represent the second-largest meiofaunal group in marine sediment milieu, after the nematodes.
