Pleocyemata
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2026-08-05: itis_id 96105 via WoRMS external link
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 1,189 observations of it in 4 datasets between 1951 and 2021, across 7 taxa under it.R
- 1,189
- observations
- 5,024
- records
- 1951–2021
- years
- 4
- datasets
- 3
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 4 taxa · Achelata most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:106670")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:106670'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 4 taxa · Achelata most observed
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Decapoda
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · maija.karala · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Caridina babaulti · source
- Photo · Johnmartindavies · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Pleocyemata” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1329217901
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.21
Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗