Editing Copepod (section)

==Classification and diversity==
Copepods are assigned to the [[class (biology)|class]] Copepoda within the superclass [[Multicrustacea]] in the subphylum [[crustacean|Crustacea]].<ref name=WoRMS-2023>{{BioRef|WoRMS|title=Copepoda |id=1080 |db=copepod |access-date=22 January 2023}}</ref> An alternative treatment is as a subclass belonging to class [[Hexanauplia]].<ref name=WoRMS-2019>{{Cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1080|title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Copepoda|website=www.marinespecies.org|access-date=2019-06-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190630192104/http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1080|archive-date=2019-06-30}}</ref> They are divided into 10 [[order (biology)|orders]].  Some 13,000 species of copepods are known, and 2,800 of them live in fresh water.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Geoff A. Boxhall |author2=Danielle Defaye |year=2008 |title=Global diversity of copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda) in freshwater |journal=[[Hydrobiologia]] |volume=595 |issue=1 |pages=195–207 |doi=10.1007/s10750-007-9014-4|bibcode=2008HyBio.595..195B |s2cid=31727589 }}</ref>