Globicephala
Pilot Whale
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).
Pilot whales are cetaceans belonging to the genus Globicephala. The two extant species are the long-finned pilot whale and the short-finned pilot whale.W CalCOFI holds 9 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1988 and 2006, across 2 taxa under it.R
- 9
- observations
- 9
- records
- 8
- sampling events
- 1988–2006
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 1
- species under it
Observed ini
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.
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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.
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name used: Globicephala spp. Pilot Whale · code
PIWHsp. → genus
Under it · 1 taxon
- sp Globicephala macrorhynchus Short-Finned Pilot Whale1
Groups
calcofi:marine_mammals
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/.
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:137017")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:137017'").df()