Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Thysanoessa

WoRMS 110679ITIS 95571key worms:110679

2026-08-05: itis_id 95571 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Gabriela Palomo-Munoz · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Thysanoessa raschii

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).

A krill of the species Thysanoessa inermis. — Photo · Dr. Russell R. Hopcroft, Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks. · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Thysanoessa is a genus of the krill that play critical roles in the marine food web. They're abundant in Arctic and Antarctic areas, feeding on zooplankton and detritus to obtain energy.W CalCOFI holds 15,902 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2019, across 3 taxa under it.R

15,902
observations: 15,902
records: 1951–2019
years: 1
datasets: 3
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 · 3 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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:110679")

Thysanoessa

Observed in

Under it · 3 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.