Malacostraca
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2026-08-05: itis_id 89787 via WoRMS external link
Malacostraca is the second largest of the six classes of pancrustaceans after insects, containing about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 orders.W CalCOFI holds 109,543 observations of it in 6 datasets between 1951 and 2026, across 49 taxa under it.R
- 109,543
- observations
- 115,016
- records
- 1951–2026
- years
- 6
- datasets
- 40
- species under it
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
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1071")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:1071'").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 1 taxon
- sC Eumalacostraca115,016
Lineage 5 ranks · Biota to Multicrustacea
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · James Bernot · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Tanaidacea · source
- Photo · Stefan Willoughby · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Malacostraca” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1373816137
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
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 ↗