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Infraphylum · checked 2026-08-05

Gnathostomata

ITIS 914179key itis:914179
Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ptomacanthus anglicus

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).

Nerepisacanthus denisoni (Acanthodii), Bothriolepis canadensis (Placodermi); Mobula alfredi, Carcharodon carcharias (Chondrichthyes); Perca flavescens (Actinopterygii), Latimeria chalumnae (Sarcoptery
Photo · Danielle Dufault Citron Jaine FRA, Couturier LIE, Weeks SJ, Townsend KA, Bennett MB, et al. Elias Levy Hadal JaffaFalcon · Public domain · commons

Gnathostomata are jawed vertebrates. Gnathostome diversity comprises roughly 60,000 species, which accounts for 99% of all extant vertebrates, including all living bony fishes and cartilaginous fishes, as well as extinct prehistoric fish such as placoderms and acanthodians.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:914179")