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Subclass · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Eumalacostraca

WoRMS 1086ITIS 89801key worms:1086
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2026-08-05: itis_id 89801 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · James Bernot · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Tanaidacea

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 Eumalacostraca
Photo · Francesco Ricciardi · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Eumalacostraca is a subclass of crustaceans, containing almost all living malacostracans, or about 40,000 described species. The remaining subclasses of crustaceans that are not in Eumalacostraca are the Phyllocarida and possibly the Hoplocarida.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 · 2 taxa

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/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1086")