Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05
Nyctiphanes
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).
Nyctiphanes is a genus of krill, comprising four species with an anti-tropical distribution. Based on molecular phylogenetic analyses of the cytochrome oxidase gene and 16S ribosomal DNA, Nyctiphanes is believed to have evolved during the Miocene.W CalCOFI holds 10,124 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2019.R
- 10,124
- observations
- 10,124
- records
- 1951–2019
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in
Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.
Under it · 1 taxon
- sp Nyctiphanes simplex10,124
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/.
R
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:110677")
Python
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:110677'").df()JSONthis taxon's entry of the release record, verbatim
https://calcofi.io/species/worms-110677.json