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Suborder · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Pleocyemata

WoRMS 106670ITIS 96105key worms:106670
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2026-08-05: itis_id 96105 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · maija.karala · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Caridina babaulti

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 Pleocyemata
Photo · Johnmartindavies · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Pleocyemata is a suborder of decapod crustaceans, erected by Martin Burkenroad in 1963. Burkenroad's classification replaced the earlier sub-orders of Natantia and Reptantia with the monophyletic groups Dendrobranchiata (prawns) and Pleocyemata.W CalCOFI holds 1,187 observations of it in 4 datasets between 1951 and 2021, across 7 taxa under it.R

1,187
observations
5,022
records
1951–2021
years
4
datasets
3
species under it

Observed in

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

Under it · 4 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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:106670")