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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Euphausia pacifica

Pacific krill

WoRMS 237851ITIS 95502key worms:237851
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2026-08-05: itis_id 95502 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Steven Haddock · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Euphausia pacifica
Pacific krill2.2 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · sealifebase

A nauplius of the krill Euphausia pacifica hatching, emerging backwards from the egg.
Photo · Dr. Jaime Gómez-Gutiérrez · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Euphausia pacifica, the North Pacific krill, is a euphausid that lives in the northern Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 21,186 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2019, as juvenile, furcilia, adult and 14 more stages.R

21,186
observations
21,186
records
6,944
sampling events
1951–2019
years
1
datasets
juvenile · furcilia · adult · calyptopis · furcilia F1 · furcilia F2 · furcilia F3 · calyptopis C3 · furcilia F4 · furcilia F7 · furcilia F6 · calyptopis C2 · damaged · furcilia F5 · calyptopis C1 · larvae · metanauplius
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.

  • Euphausiids (Krill) 21,186 obs · 6,944 events · 1951–2019 · juvenile · furcilia · adult · calyptopis · furcilia F1 · furcilia F2 · furcilia F3 · calyptopis C3 · furcilia F4 · furcilia F7 · furcilia F6 · calyptopis C2 · damaged · furcilia F5 · calyptopis C1 · larvae · metanauplius
    name used: Euphausia pacifica · code 9

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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 Euphausiids (Krill) table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/cce-lter_euphausiids.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:237851%22