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Infrakingdom · checked 2026-08-05

Deuterostomia

ITIS 914156key itis:914156
Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Kimberella quadrata

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).

Examples of deuterostomes File:Renardrouxgris.jpg File:Glossobalanus_sp..jpg File:Fromia_indica_Landaagiraavaru.JPG File:Yanjiahella concept.png
Photo · Prehistoricplanes · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons

Deuterostomes are bilaterian animals of the superphylum Deuterostomia, which are typically characterized by their blastopore becoming their anus during embryonic development. Deuterostomia comprises three phyla: Chordata, Echinodermata, Hemichordata, and the extinct clade Cambroernida.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:914156")