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Kingdom · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Animalia

animals

WoRMS 2ITIS 202423key itis:202423
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2026-08-05: worms_id 2 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Vaveliksia vana

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 Animalia
Photo · Elias Levy · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms belonging to the biological kingdom Animalia. Animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, have muscle cells, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development.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

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

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 == "itis:202423")