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Superorder · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Podoplea

WoRMS 155879ITIS 610008key worms:155879
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2026-08-05: itis_id 610008 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · James Bernot · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Cyclopidae

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 Podoplea
Photo · Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Podoplea is a superorder of copepods in the infraclass Neocopepoda that was named by Wilhelm Giesbrecht in 1882. It has a worldwide distribution, with documented appearances in the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and Southern oceans.W CalCOFI holds 15,373 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2005 and 2026, across 3 taxa under it.R

15,373
observations
16,590
records
2005–2026
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

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:155879")