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Suborder · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Dendrobranchiata

prawns

WoRMS 106669ITIS 95600key worms:106669
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2026-08-05: itis_id 95600 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Penaeus monodon

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 Dendrobranchiata
Photo · Corbari L. · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Dendrobranchiata is a suborder of decapods, commonly known as prawns. There are 540 extant species in seven families, and a fossil record extending back to the Devonian.W CalCOFI holds 801 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2010.R

801
observations
1,005
records
1951–2010
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:106669")