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Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Decapoda

decapods

WoRMS 1130ITIS 95599key worms:1130
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2026-08-05: itis_id 95599 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Penaeus monodon

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).

Photograph of Decapoda
Photo · Peter Vos · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

A decapod is a crustacean in the large order of Decapoda within the class Malacostraca, including crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, and prawns. Most decapods are scavengers.W CalCOFI holds 2,307 observations of it in 4 datasets between 1951 and 2021, as megalopa and zoea, across 9 taxa under it.R

2,307
observations
6,647
records
310
sampling events
1951–2021
years
4
datasets
3
species under it
megalopa · zoea
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Dungeness Crab Megalopae 620 obs · 310 events · 2008–2014 · megalopa · zoea
    name used: Decapoda · code decapoda

Under it · 2 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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Dungeness Crab Megalopae table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/cdfw_dungeness-crab.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:1130%22