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Suborder · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Hyperiidea

AMPHIPODA HYPERIIDEA

WoRMS 1205ITIS 95107key worms:1205
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2026-08-05: itis_id 95107 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 Hyperiidea
Photo · Peter Southwood · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

The Hyperiidea is one of the six suborders of amphipods, small aquatic crustaceans. Unlike some other suborders of Amphipoda, hyperiids are exclusively marine and do not occur in fresh water.W CalCOFI holds 809 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2010.R

809
observations
1,005
records
335
sampling events
1951–2010
years
1
datasets

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.

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 ZooDB (Holoplankton Community) table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/cce-lter_zoodb.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:1205%22