Tags: Crustacean.

Northern krill Meganyctiphanes norvegica is a species of krill that lives in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is an important component of the zooplankton providing food for whales fish and birds. (In the Southern Ocean Antarctic krill Euphausia superba fills a similar role.) M.

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binomial authority
Michael Sars
class
Malacostraca
family
Krill
kingdom
Animal
order
Krill
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean

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