Peracarida
peracarids
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2026-08-05: itis_id 573755 via WoRMS external link
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 2021, across 2 taxa under it.R
- 957
- observations
- 2,010
- records
- 1951–2021
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 0
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, 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:1090")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:1090'").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 1 taxon
- O Amphipoda amphipods2,010
Lineage 7 ranks · Biota to Eumalacostraca
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · James Bernot · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Tanaidacea · source
- Photo · NOAA Ocean Explorer · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Peracarida” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1368969606
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 ↗