Biota
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 837,441 observations of it in 10 datasets between 1951 and 2026, across 1,127 taxa under it.R
- 837,441
- observations
- 1,274,989
- records
- 1951–2026
- years
- 10
- datasets
- 698
- species under it
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
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:1'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, 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
- K Animalia Unidentified animal1,274,989
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Biota · source
- Photo · MBG · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · gbif · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Life” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1373528036
Elsewhere 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, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗