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Deuterostomia

InfrakingdomITIS 914156key itis:914156

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
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

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 inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:914156")

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
Lineage 2 ranks · Animalia to Bilateria
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata

Wikidata

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 ↗