Chordata

Phylumaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 1821ITIS 158852key itis:158852

2026-08-05: worms_id 1821 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

A chordate is a bilaterian animal belonging to the phylum Chordata.W CalCOFI holds 63,550 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 97 taxa under it.R

63,550
observations: 63,550
records: 1987–2022
years: 1
datasets: 90
species under it

Photo · Brian Gratwicke · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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 == "itis:158852")

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 Vertebrata vertebrates63,550

Lineage 3 ranks · Animalia to Deuterostomia

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Diego Alexander Canque Sosa · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Zhongxiniscus intermedius · source
Photo · Brian Gratwicke · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Chordate” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1373999774

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist 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 ↗