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Superorder · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Eucarida

WoRMS 1089ITIS 95495key worms:1089
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2026-08-05: itis_id 95495 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Steven Haddock · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Euphausia pacifica

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 Eucarida
Photo · world_lineage · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 108,584 observations of it in 6 datasets between 1951 and 2026, across 47 taxa under it.R

108,584
observations
113,004
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:1089")