Podoplea

Podoplea is a superorder of copepods in the infraclass Neocopepoda that was named by Wilhelm Giesbrecht in 1882.^[1] It has a worldwide distribution, with documented appearances in the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and Southern oceans.^[1][2]

Podoplea
Cyclops sp. (Cyclopoida)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Copepoda
Infraclass:	Neocopepoda
Superorder:	Podoplea Giesbrecht, 1882[1]
Orders
See text
Synonyms[1]
Rhabdomoplea Khodami et al., 2019

Classification

Podoplea contains 8 orders.^[1] They are listed below.

• Order Cyclopoida Burmeister, 1834
• Order Gelyelloida Huys, 1988
• Order Harpacticoida G. O. Sars, 1903
• Order Misophrioida Gurney, 1933
• Order Monstrilloida Sars, 1901
• Order Mormonilloida Boxshall, 1979
• Order Polyarthra Lang, 1944 (=Canuelloida Khodami, Vaun MacArthur, Blanco-Bercial & Martinez Arbizu, 2017 )
• Order Siphonostomatoida Thorell, 1859