Euphausiidae
euphausiids
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).
Krill (Euphausiids) are small and exclusively marine crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea, found in all of the world's oceans. The name "krill" comes from the Norwegian word krill, meaning "small fry of fish", which is also often attributed to species of fish.W CalCOFI holds 100,505 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2019, across 37 taxa under it.R
- 100,505
- observations
- 100,505
- records
- 1951–2019
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 37
- 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 · 8 taxa
- G Euphausia34,939
- G Hansarsia21,916
- G Thysanoessa15,902
- G Stylocheiron15,485
- G Nyctiphanes10,124
- G Nematobrachion1,183
- G Thysanopoda823
- G Tessarabrachion133
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:110671")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:110671'").df()