Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Amphipoda

amphipods

WoRMS 1135ITIS 93294key worms:1135

2026-08-05: itis_id 93294 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Leucothoe incisa

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 Amphipoda — Photo · Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans characterized by sessile eyes and the absence of a carapace.W CalCOFI holds 957 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2010, across 2 taxa under it.R

957
observations: 2,010
records: 1951–2010
years: 1
datasets: 0
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 · 2 taxa

sO Gammaridea AMPHIPODA GAMMARIDEA1,005
sO Hyperiidea AMPHIPODA HYPERIIDEA1,005

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:1135")

Amphipoda

Observed in

Under it · 2 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/.