Tessarabrachion

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 237869ITIS 95569key worms:237869

2026-08-05: itis_id 95569 via WoRMS external link

Tessarabrachion is a monotypic genus of species of krill, containing only the species Tessarabrachion oculatum.W CalCOFI holds 133 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1952 and 2018.R

133
observations: 133
records: 1952–2018
years: 1
datasets

Photo · Naturalis Biodiversity Center · CC0 1.0 · gbif

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:237869")

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 1 taxon

sp Tessarabrachion oculatum133

Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Euphausiidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Steven Haddock · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Euphausia pacifica · source
Photo · Naturalis Biodiversity Center · CC0 1.0 · gbif · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Tessarabrachion” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1241182383

Elsewhere Wikidata · GBIF

Wikidata GBIF

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 ↗