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Phylum · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ctenophora

Comb jelly

WoRMS 1248ITIS 53856GBIF 1507726key worms:1248
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2026-08-05: itis_id 53856 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Noah Schlottman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pleurobrachia

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 Ctenophora
Photo · Neil McDaniel · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Ctenophora or ctenophores, commonly known as comb jellies, is a basal phylum of marine invertebrate animals notable for their unique aquatic locomotion using groups of cilia. They inhabit marine habitats worldwide, with 186 recognised living species.W CalCOFI holds 569 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2010.R

569
observations
1,005
records
335
sampling events
1951–2010
years
1
datasets

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.

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 ZooDB (Holoplankton Community) table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/cce-lter_zoodb.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:1248%22