Centropagidae is a family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of copepod

Copepod

Copepods are a group of small crustaceans found in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat. Some species are planktonic , some are benthic , and some continental species may live in limno-terrestrial habitats and other wet terrestrial places, such as swamps, under leaf fall in wet forests,...

s. Its members are particularly common as plankton

Plankton

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 in coastal waters and in fresh water

Fresh Water

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 in Australia

Australia

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 and southern South America

South America

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. They are also found on subantarctic islands and in lakes in Antarctica.

Genera

There are 13 genera included in the Centropagidae, including nearly 150 species.

• Boeckella
  Boeckella
  Boeckella is a genus of copepods in the family Centropagidae. It contains 53 species, of which five are listed as vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List – the Australian endemics B. bispinosa, B. geniculata, B. nyoraensis and B. shieli, and B...
  
  De Guerne & Richard, 1889 — 53 species, freshwater 
• Calamoecia
  Calamoecia
  Calamoecia is a genus of copepods in the family Centropagidae confined to Australasia. It is thought to have evolved since the separation of the Australian continent from Antarctica. Three of the Australian endemic species are listed as vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List...
  
  Brady, 1906 — 20 species, freshwater 
• Centropages Krøyer, 1849 — 34 species, marine 
• Dussartopages Huys, 2009 — 1 species, marine 
• Gippslandia Bayly & Arnott, 1969 — 1 species, marine 
• Gladioferens
  Gladioferens
  Gladioferens is a genus of copepods in the family Centropagidae, found in coastal marine and lagoon habitats in the Southern hemisphere. It contains the following species:  *Gladioferens antarcticus Bayly, 1994...
  
  Henry, 1919 — 10 species, marine  
• Guernella Giesbrecht in G & Schmeil, 1898 — 1 species, marine 
• Hemiboeckella
  Hemiboeckella
  Hemiboeckella is a genus of crustacean in family Centropagidae. It contains the following species:*Hemiboeckella andersonae Bayly, 1974*Hemiboeckella powellensis Bayly, 1979*Hemiboeckella searli G. O. Sars, 1912...
  
  G. O. Sars, 1912 — 3 species, freshwater 
• Isias Boeck, 1865 — 5 species, marine 

• Limnocalanus G. O. Sars, 1863 — 7 species, marine / brackish water 
• Neoboeckella Bayly, 1992 — 2 species, marine 
• Osphranticum Forbes, 1882 — 2 species, marine 
• Sinocalanus Burckhardt, 1913 — 9 species, marine / brackish water 

A fourteenth genus, Karukinka, was erected in 2002, but is apparently an offshoot of Boeckella poppei.