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Tetrapoda

WoRMS 1831ITIS 914181key itis:914181
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2026-08-05: worms_id 1831 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Westlothiana lizziae

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).

One of the phylogenetic trees of life of tetrapoda. Most lines are extinct.
Photo · Dixi at Polish Wikipedia · Public domain · commons

A tetrapod is any vertebrate animal of the clade Tetrapoda. The main diagnostic and defining trait (synapomorphy) of tetrapods is having four limbs, connected to the shoulder- and pelvic girdles, for which the group is named.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

  • C Aves Unidentified Albatross63,550

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/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:914181")