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Class · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Gastropoda

Snails

WoRMS 101ITIS 69459GBIF 225key worms:101
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2026-08-05: itis_id 69459 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Trond Oskars · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Scaphander lignarius

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).

Photograph of Gastropoda
Photo · rappman · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Gastropods are a vast and diverse group of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca, comprising the animals commonly known as snails and slugs. With an estimated 65,000 to 80,000 living species, they form the second-largest animal class after the insects.W CalCOFI holds 7,429 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2026, across 5 taxa under it.R

7,429
observations
9,920
records
1,483
sampling events
1951–2026
years
2
datasets
0
species under it

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Under it · 2 taxa

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the ZooScan (Imaged Zooplankton) table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/cce-lter_zooscan.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:101%22