Class · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ostracoda

ostracods

WoRMS 1078ITIS 84195key worms:1078

2026-08-05: itis_id 84195 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Derocheilocaris

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 Ostracoda — Photo · Steve Kerr · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Ostracods, or ostracodes, are a class of the Crustacea, sometimes known as seed shrimp. Some 33,000 species have been identified, grouped into 7 valid orders.W CalCOFI holds 6,430 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2026.R

6,430
observations: 6,839
records: 1,818
sampling events: 1951–2026
years: 2
datasets

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

ZooScan (Imaged Zooplankton) 5,834 obs · 1,483 events · 2005–2026
name used: Ostracoda ostracods · code 17
ZooDB (Holoplankton Community) 1,005 obs · 335 events · 1951–2010
name used: Ostracoda OSTRACODA · code 28

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/.

Explorer db-query

ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the ZooScan (Imaged Zooplankton) table constrained to this taxon

https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/cce-lter_zooscan.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:1078%22

Ostracoda

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

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/.