Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05
Phocidae
true seals
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).
The earless seals, also known as phocids or true seals, are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal lineage, Pinnipedia. All true seals are members of the family Phocidae.W CalCOFI holds 90 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020, across 2 taxa under it.R
- 90
- observations
- 90
- records
- 1987–2020
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 2
- 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 ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
R
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:136976")
Python
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:136976'").df()JSONthis taxon's entry of the release record, verbatim
https://calcofi.io/species/worms-136976.json