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zooplankton

heterotrophic protistan or metazoan members of the plankton ecosystem
Class type of: plankton Q842627

Facts

3 properties
Instance of
group or class of living things
Subclass of
plankton
Main food source
phytoplankton[3]
🏷️ Also known as
en animala planktono en zooplankton ar عوالق حيوانية el ζωοπλαγκτόν es zooplancton es Zooplacton fa زئوپلانکتون fi eläinplankton fi Eläinplanktoni fr Zooplanctonique he זואופלנקטון ja 動物プランクトン ja 動物性プランクトン ko 동물성플랑크톤 ko 동물성 플랑크톤 nl Zooplankton nl zoöplankton pt zooplâncton ru зоопланктон sv djurplankton
🔖 Identifiers · 28
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85150002
OpenAlex ID
C158836135
A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition entry ID
5901
Canadian Encyclopedia article ID
zooplankton
DeCS ID
15444
Elhuyar ZTH ID
006731
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/zooplankton
Freebase ID
/m/02p0tb6
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
zooplancton
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0152175
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
dyreplankton
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
1995994
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J9U entity ID
987007536541805171
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
zooplankton
LEM ID
LEM201009367
MeSH descriptor ID
D015048
MeSH tree code
B05.080.500.980
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
158836135
NALT ID
58488
NL CR AUT ID
ph127669
SVKKL authority ID
0369718-zooplankton
ScholarGPS specialty ID
84888578704558
ScienceDirect topic ID
agricultural-and-biological-sciences/zooplankton, earth-and-planetary-sciences/zooplankton, immunology-and-microbiology/zooplankton, pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/zooplankton
Topic's main category
Category:Zooplankton
UMLS CUI
C0043530
Vikidia article ID
es:Zooplancton
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
01386805-n
Yale LUX ID
concept/60a0f089-1504-4e74-b129-86529d9faa40

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🔗 Connections
← Main food source 9
Cetacea, Cyprinus carpio, Teuthida, humpback whale, Euphausiacea, Sardina pilchardus, bowhead whale, Balaenoptera borealis +1 more
Main food source 1
phytoplankton
Subclass of 1
plankton
Subtypes 1
ichthyoplankton
← Contains 1
Ogunpa River
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Summary

zooplankton is a group or class of living things[1]. zooplankton is a type of plankton[2].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 15w ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → group or class of living things
    "Created claim: Instance of: group or class of living things"
  2. 17w ago · AAbelardoo · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Vikidia article ID → es:Zooplancton
    "Created claim: Vikidia article ID: es: Zooplancton"
  3. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0369718-zooplankton
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: 0369718-zooplankton, batch #259497"
  4. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → plankton
    Main food source → phytoplankton
    Topic's main category → Category:Zooplankton
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007536541805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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