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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Class: Malacostraca Order: Euphausiacea Family: Euphausiidae Genus: Meganyctiphanes Holt and W. M. Tattersall, 1905 Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1750x1000, 145 KB) A Northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica). ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anenomes) Placozoa (trichoplax) Subregnum Bilateria (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Orthonectida (flatworms, echinoderms, etc. ... Subphyla and Classes Subphylum Trilobitomorpha Trilobita - Trilobites (extinct) Subphylum Chelicerata Arachnida - Spiders, Scorpions, etc. ... Classes Remipedia Cephalocarida Branchiopoda Ostracoda Maxillopoda Malacostraca The crustaceans (Crustacea) are a large group of arthropods (55,000 species), usually treated as a subphylum. ... Orders Subclass Eumalacostraca  Superorder Eucarida   Order Amphionidacea   Order Decapoda - crabs, shrimp   Order Euphausiacea - krill  â€ Superorder Pancarida   â€ Order Thermosbaenacea  Superorder Peracarida   Order Amphipoda - amphipods   Order Cumacea - cumaceans   Order Isopoda - pillbugs, sowbugs   Order Lophogastrida   Order Mictacea   Order Mysida   â€ Order Spelaeogriphacea   Order Tanaidacea  Superorder Syncarida   Order Anaspidacea   Order Bathynellacea   â€ Order Palaeocaridacea   Order Stygocaridacea... Common name. ... Genera Euphausia Dana, 1852 Meganyctiphanes Holt and W. M. Tattersall, 1905 Nematobrachion Calman, 1905 Nematoscelis G. O. Sars, 1883 Nyctiphanes G. O. Sars, 1883 Pseudeuphausia Hansen, 1910 Stylocheiron G. O. Sars, 1883 Tessarabrachion Hansen, 1911 Thysanoessa Brandt, 1851 Thysanopoda Latreille, 1831 The family of the Euphausiidae is the largest family... E. W. L. Holt Ernest William Lyons Holt (October 17, 1864 – June 10, 1922) was an eminent British marine naturalist and biologist specialized in ichthyology, the study of fish. ... Walter Medley Tattersall (November 8, 1882 - October 5, 1948) was a British zoologist and marine biologist, famous for his study of mysids. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Species: norvegica
Binomial name
Meganyctiphanes norvegica (M. Sars, 1856)

Northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica) is a crustacean that lives in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the zooplankton. It is an euphausiid and a very important component of the plankton of the ocean, food for whales, fish and birds. In the Southern Ocean the Antarctic krill Euphausia superba fills a similar role. In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Michael Sars (b. ... 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Classes Class Branchiopoda Subclass Phyllopoda Subclass Sarsostraca Class Remipedia Order Enantiopoda Order Nectiopoda Class Cephalocarida Order Brachypoda Class Maxillopoda Subclass Mystacocarida Subclass Copepoda Subclass Branchiura Subclass Pentastomida Subclass Tantulocarida Subclass Thecostraca Infraclass Cirripedia Class Ostracoda Order Metacopina Subclass Myodocopa Subclass Podocopa Class Malacostraca Subclass Eumalacostraca Subclass Hoplocarida Subclass Phyllocarida The... For other uses, see Atlantic (disambiguation) The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one-fifth of its surface. ... Photomontage of plankton organisms Plankton is the aggregate community of weakly swimming but mostly drifting small organisms that inhabit the water column of the ocean, seas, and bodies of freshwater. ... Euphausiid is the scientific name for shrimp-like marine invertebrates, important organisms of the plankton (zooplankton), also called krill. ... Photomontage of plankton organisms Plankton are drifting organisms that inhabit the water column of oceans, seas, and bodies of fresh water. ... Whales are the largest species of exclusively aquatic mammals, members of the order Cetacea, which also includes dolphins and porpoises. ... Groups Conodonta Hyperoartia Petromyzontidae (lampreys) Pteraspidomorphi (early jawless fish) Thelodonti Anaspida Cephalaspidomorphi (early jawless fish) Galeaspida Pituriaspida Osteostraci Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) Placodermi Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) Acanthodii Osteichthyes (bony fish) Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish) Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) Actinistia (coelacanths) Dipnoi (lungfish) A fish is a poikilothermic (cold-blooded) water-dwelling... Orders Many - see section below. ... Binomial name Euphausia superba Dana, 1850 Krill is the Norwegian word for whale food. ...

The Northern krill is the only species of the genus Meganyctiphanes.

The stomach is colored intensly red from carotenoids, an indication that this euphausid feeds on copepods.

Carotenoids are organic pigments naturally occurring in plants and some other photosynthetic organisms like algae, some types of fungus and some bacteria. ... Orders Calanoida Cyclopoida Gelyelloida Harpacticoida Misophrioida Monstrilloida Mormonilloida Platycopioida Poecilostomatoida Siphonostomatoida Copepods are small animals living in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat. ...

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