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Achelata

spiny lobsters

Infraorderaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 383017key worms:383017

The Achelata is an infraorder of the decapod crustaceans, holding the spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters and their fossil relatives.W CalCOFI holds 504 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2021, across 2 taxa under it.R

504
observations
2,046
records
1951–2021
years
2
datasets
1
species under it
Photograph of Achelata
Photo · Albert Kang · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 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:383017")

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
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Pleocyemata
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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 ↗