Infraorder · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Achelata

spiny lobsters

WoRMS 383017key worms:383017

Silhouette · Joanna Wolfe · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Polychelidae

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 Achelata — Photo · Albert Kang · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The Achelata is an infraorder of the decapod crustaceans, holding the spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters and their fossil relatives.W CalCOFI holds 502 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2021, across 2 taxa under it.R

502
observations: 2,044
records: 1951–2021
years: 2
datasets: 1
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 · 1 taxon

F Palinuridae Lobster2,044

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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:383017")

Achelata

Observed in

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.