Class · accepted · checked 2026-08-05
Malacostraca
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).
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 109,541 observations of it in 6 datasets between 1951 and 2026, across 49 taxa under it.R
- 109,541
- observations
- 115,014
- records
- 1951–2026
- years
- 6
- datasets
- 40
- 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 · 1 taxon
- sC Eumalacostraca115,014
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
R
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1071")
Python
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:1071'").df()JSONthis taxon's entry of the release record, verbatim
https://calcofi.io/species/worms-1071.json