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Subphylum · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Crustacea

Crustacean

WoRMS 1066ITIS 83677GBIF 10996236key worms:1066
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2026-08-05: itis_id 83677 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Derocheilocaris

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Crustacea
Photo · Gen C · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Crustaceans are mandibulate arthropods that are traditionally a part of the paraphyletic subphylum Crustacea. Crustaceans are mainly aquatic, including decapods, seed shrimps, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.W CalCOFI holds 158,695 observations of it in 6 datasets between 1951 and 2026, as invert, across 66 taxa under it.R

158,695
observations
170,225
records
1,485
sampling events
1951–2026
years
6
datasets
40
species under it
invert
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • ZooScan (Imaged Zooplankton) 5,826 obs · 1,483 events · 2005–2026
    name used: Crustacea crustacea_others · code 11
  • Ichthyoplankton 2 obs · 2 events · 2015–2023 · invert
    name used: Crustacea Crustacean · code 10005

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the ZooScan (Imaged Zooplankton) table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/cce-lter_zooscan.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:1066%22