Subphylum · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Vertebrata

vertebrates

WoRMS 146419ITIS 331030key itis:331030

2026-08-05: worms_id 146419 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Jamoytius kerwoodi

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 Vertebrata — Photo · Viktor V. Grøtan · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Vertebrates, also called craniates, are animals with a vertebral column and a cranium. The vertebral column surrounds and protects the spinal cord, while the cranium protects the brain.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

iP Gnathostomata63,550

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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:331030")

Vertebrata

Observed in

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.