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Phylum · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Cnidaria

Jellyfish

WoRMS 1267ITIS 48738GBIF 43key worms:1267
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2026-08-05: itis_id 48738 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Auroralumina attenboroughii

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 Cnidaria
Photo · Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Cnidaria is a phylum of animals containing over 11,000 species of aquatic invertebrates found both in freshwater and marine environments, including jellyfish, hydroids, sea anemones, corals and some of the smallest marine parasites.W CalCOFI holds 7,476 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2026, across 3 taxa under it.R

7,476
observations
7,890
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 · 1 taxon

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:1267%22