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Hansarsia

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 1649781key worms:1649781

Hansarsia is a genus of krill, formerly known by the name Nematoscelis (e.g.), a junior homonym.W CalCOFI holds 21,916 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2019, across 5 taxa under it.R

21,916
observations
21,916
records
1951–2019
years
1
datasets
5
species under it
Photograph of Hansarsia
Photo · Lisa Bennett · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 5 taxa · Hansarsia difficilis most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1649781")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 5 taxa · Hansarsia difficilis most observed
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Euphausiidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.21

Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗