Species Identification: Find Species

Scientific Name	English Name	Distribution	Max. Length (cm)	Year
Euphausia americana		Cosmopolitan.		1911
Euphausia brevis		Pacific Ocean and Western	1 TL	1905
Euphausia crystallorophias	Ice krill	Circum-Antarctic.	4.2 TL	1906
Euphausia diomedeae		Indo-Pacific.	1.8 TL	1894
Euphausia distinguenda		Pacific Ocean.	0.9 TL	1911
Euphausia eximia		Eastern Pacific.	2 TL	1911
Euphausia fallax		Western Central Pacific		1916
Euphausia frigida	Pygmy krill	Southwest Atlantic and An	2.7 TL	1911
Euphausia gibba		Southern Pacific.		1893
Euphausia gibboides		Cosmopolitan.	2.7 TL	1893
Euphausia hanseni		Antarctic Ocean.		1915
Euphausia hemigibba		Cosmopolitan.	1.7 TL	1910
Euphausia krohnii		Central Atlantic.		1851
Euphausia lamelligera		Eastern Pacific.	1.1 TL	1911
Euphausia longirostris		Antarctic Atlantic.		1908
Euphausia lucens		Antarctic and Southeast P	2.1 TL	1905
Euphausia mucronata		Southeast Pacific		1883
Euphausia mutica		Pacific Ocean	1.5 TL	1905
Euphausia nana		Northwest Pacific	2.4 TL	1962
Euphausia pacifica	Isada krill	Pacific Ocean. Subtropic	2.2 TL	1911
Euphausia paragibba		Pacific Ocean.	1.6 TL	1893
Euphausia pseudogibba		Indo-Pacific and Atlantic	1.4 TL	1893
Euphausia recurva		Indo-Pacific and the Atla	1.7 TL	1905
Euphausia sanzoi		Indo-West Pacific		1934
Euphausia sibogae		Western Indian Ocean		1908
Euphausia similis		Pacific Ocean	2.6 TL	1883
Euphausia spinifera		Pacific.		1883
Euphausia superba	Antarctic krill	Circumpolar in the Southe	3 TL	1850
Euphausia tenera		Cosmopolitan.	0.9 TL	1905
Euphausia triacantha	Spiny krill	Antarctic Ocean.	4.2 TL	1906
Euphausia vallentini		Antarctic and Southeast P		1900
Meganyctiphanes norvegica	Norwegian krill	Arctic, Atlantic and the	4 TL	1857
Nematobrachion boopis		Cosmopolitan.	2.1 TL	1896
Nematobrachion flexipes		Cosmopolitan.	2.3 TL	1893
Nematobrachion sexspinosum		Eastern Pacific and Centr	2.5 TL	1911
Nematoscelis atlantica		Cosmopolitan.	1.5 TL	1910
Nematoscelis difficilis		Eastern Pacific	2.5 TL	1911
Nematoscelis gracilis		Indo-Pacific.	1.6 TL	1910
Nematoscelis lobata		Western Central Pacific		1916
Nematoscelis megalops		Indo-Pacific and the Atla		1883
Nematoscelis microps		Cosmopolitan.	2 TL	1883
Nematoscelis tenella		Cosmopolitan.	2.1 TL	1883
Nyctiphanes australis		Southwest Pacific		1883
Nyctiphanes capensis		Western Indian Ocean		1911
Nyctiphanes couchii		Mediterranean and Northea		1853
Nyctiphanes simplex		Eastern Pacific.	1.6 TL	1911
Pseudeuphausia latifrons		Indo-West Pacific.	0.9 TL	1883
Pseudeuphausia sinica		Northwest Pacific		1963
Stylocheiron abbreviatum		Cosmopolitan.	1.6 TL	1883
Stylocheiron affine		Cosmopolitan.	0.8 TL	1910
Stylocheiron armatum		Western Indian Ocean		1917
Stylocheiron carinatum		Cosmopolitan.	1.2 TL	1883
Stylocheiron elongatum		Cosmopolitan.	1.6 TL	1883
Stylocheiron indicum		Cosmopolitan.		1967
Stylocheiron insulare		Pacific and the Atlantic.		1910
Stylocheiron longicorne		Cosmopolitan.	1.3 TL	1883
Stylocheiron maximum		Cosmopolitan.	3 TL	1908
Stylocheiron microphthalma		Indo-West Pacific.	0.7 TBW	1910
Stylocheiron robustum		Pacific.		1962
Stylocheiron suhmi		Indo-Pacific.	0.7 TL	1883
Tessarabrachion oculatum		Pacific.	2.6 TL	1911
Thysanoessa gregaria		Pacific Ocean.	1.6 TL	1883
Thysanoessa inermis		Pacific Ocean, Northeast	3.2 TL	1846
Thysanoessa inspinata		Northern Pacific	2.3 TL	1963
Thysanoessa longicaudata		Northeast Atlantic and th		1846
Thysanoessa longipes		Arctic, Indo-Pacific and	3 TL	1851
Thysanoessa macrura		Circumpolar.		1883
Thysanoessa parva		Pacific.	1.1 TL	1905
Thysanoessa raschii		Pacific Ocean, Northeast	2.5 TL	1864
Thysanoessa spinifera		Pacific Ocean		1900
Thysanoessa vicina		Antarctic Ocean.		1911
Thysanopoda acutifrons		Pacific and southwest Atl	5 TL	1905
Thysanopoda aegualis		Northwest Pacific		1905
Thysanopoda aequalis		Cosmopolitan.	2 TL	1905
Thysanopoda astylata		Indo-Pacific.		1975
Thysanopoda cornuta		Pacific Ocean.	9.5 TL	1905
Thysanopoda cristata		Pacific and western centr	4.8 TL	1883
Thysanopoda egregia		Cosmopolitan.	6.2 TL	1905
Thysanopoda microphthalma		Northern Atlantic.		1885
Thysanopoda minyops		Northern Atlantic.		1987
Thysanopoda monacantha		Cosmopolitan.	3.2 TL	1893
Thysanopoda obtusifrons		Pacific, western Indian a		1883
Thysanopoda orientalis		Cosmopolitan.	3.8 TL	1910
Thysanopoda pectinata		Indo-Pacific and the Atla	4.4 TL	1893
Thysanopoda spinicaudata		Eastern central Pacific.		1953
Thysanopoda tricuspidata		Indo-Pacific and the Atla	2.2 TL	1837

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Family: Euphausiidae (See list of species below)

Family: Euphausiidae

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