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Superclass · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Multicrustacea

WoRMS 845959key worms:845959
Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Brittaniclus rankini

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 Multicrustacea
Photo · Gen C · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The clade Multicrustacea constitutes the largest superclass of crustaceans, containing approximately four-fifths of all described non-hexapod crustacean species, including crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, prawns, woodlice, barnacles, copepods, amphipods, mantis shrimp and others.W CalCOFI holds 146,545 observations of it in 6 datasets between 1951 and 2026, across 64 taxa under it.R

146,545
observations
157,558
records
1951–2026
years
6
datasets
40
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 · 2 taxa

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:845959")