Euphausiidae
euphausiids
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2026-08-05: itis_id 95500 via WoRMS external link
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 keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 8 taxa · Euphausia 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:110671")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:110671'").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 8 taxa · Euphausia most observed
- G Euphausia34,939
- G Hansarsia21,916
- G Thysanoessa15,902
- G Stylocheiron15,485
- G Nyctiphanes10,124
- G Nematobrachion1,183
- G Thysanopoda823
- G Tessarabrachion133
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Euphausiacea
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Steven Haddock · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Euphausia pacifica · source
- Photo · Gina Lonati · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Krill” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1369336576
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
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 ↗