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Caridea

shrimps

Infraorderaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 106674ITIS 96106key worms:106674
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2026-08-05: itis_id 96106 via WoRMS external link

The Caridea, commonly known as caridean shrimp or true shrimp (from Ancient Greek καρίς, καρίδος, are an infraorder of shrimp within the order Decapoda. This infraorder contains all species of true shrimp.W CalCOFI holds 99 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2021.R

99
observations
1,005
records
1951–2021
years
1
datasets
Photograph of Caridea
Photo · Riccardo Novaga · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:106674")

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 1 taxon
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Pleocyemata
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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 ↗