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Superorder · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Peracarida

peracarids

WoRMS 1090ITIS 573755key worms:1090
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2026-08-05: itis_id 573755 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 Peracarida
Photo · NOAA Ocean Explorer · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

The superorder Peracarida is a large group of malacostracan crustaceans, having members in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats. They are chiefly defined by the presence of a marsupium, formed from thin flattened plates (oostegites) borne on the basalmost segments of the legs.W CalCOFI holds 957 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2010, across 2 taxa under it.R

957
observations
2,010
records
1951–2010
years
1
datasets
0
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

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:1090")