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Superdomain · accepted

Biota

WoRMS 1key worms:1
Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Biota

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).

Li - 3646 - China
Photo · MBG · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · gbif NC

Life is the capacity in matter, formed of one or more units called cells, for processes such as cell signaling, homeostasis, metabolism, cell growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction. All life eventually reaches a state of death.W CalCOFI holds 765,161 observations of it in 9 datasets between 1951 and 2026, across 1,093 taxa under it.R

765,161
observations
1,003,410
records
1951–2026
years
9
datasets
669
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 == "worms:1")