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Euphausia

WoRMS 110673ITIS 95501key worms:110673
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2026-08-05: itis_id 95501 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).

Antarctic krill Euphausia superba. This is the startimage of the virtual microscope http://www.ecoscope.com/cybermic/index.htm of krill where you can click into details of the animal to get higher mag
Photo · Krill666.jpg: Uwe Kils I am willing to give the image in 1700 resolution to Wikipedia Uwe Kils · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Euphausia is the largest genus of krill, and is placed in the family Euphausiidae. There are 31 species known in this genus, including Antarctic krill and ice krill from the Southern Ocean, and North Pacific krill in the Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 34,939 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2019, across 11 taxa under it.R

34,939
observations
34,939
records
1951–2019
years
1
datasets
11
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 · 11 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:110673")