Gastropoda
Snails
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2026-08-05: itis_id 69459 via WoRMS external link
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 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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name used: Gastropoda pteropoda_heteropoda · code
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Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:101")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:101'").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 2 taxa · Heterobranchia most observed
- sC Heterobranchia3,051
- sC Caenogastropoda1,017
Lineage 3 ranks · Biota to Mollusca
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Trond Oskars · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Scaphander lignarius · source
- Photo · rappman · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Gastropod” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1364388957
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
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 ↗