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Phylum · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Arthropoda

arthropods

WoRMS 1065ITIS 82696key worms:1065
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82696 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Kylinxia zhangi

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 Arthropoda
Photo · Justin Williams · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda. They possess an exoskeleton with a cuticle made of chitin, often mineralised with calcium carbonate, a body with differentiated (metameric) segments, and paired jointed appendages.W CalCOFI holds 159,129 observations of it in 6 datasets between 1951 and 2026, across 67 taxa under it.R

159,129
observations
170,659
records
1951–2026
years
6
datasets
40
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 · 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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1065")