Eucarida
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2026-08-05: itis_id 95495 via WoRMS external link
Eucarida is a superorder of the Malacostraca, a class of the crustacean subphylum, comprising the decapods, krill, and Angustidontida. They are characterised by having the carapace fused to all thoracic segments, and by the possession of stalked eyes.W CalCOFI holds 108,586 observations of it in 6 datasets between 1951 and 2026, across 47 taxa under it.R
- 108,586
- observations
- 113,006
- 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 — 2 taxa · Euphausiacea most observed, 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:1089")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:1089'").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 2 taxa · Euphausiacea most observed
- O Euphausiacea krill106,357
- O Decapoda decapods6,649
Lineage 7 ranks · Biota to Eumalacostraca
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Steven Haddock · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Euphausia pacifica · source
- Photo · world_lineage · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Eucarida” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1345264711
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
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 ↗