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Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Siphonophorae

Siphonophore

WoRMS 1371ITIS 718928key worms:1371
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2026-08-05: itis_id 718928 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · MBARI and FathomVerse · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Kephyes ovata

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 Siphonophorae
Photo · Catriona Munro · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Siphonophores are cnidarian animals of the hydrozoan order Siphonophorae. According to the World Register of Marine Species, the order contains 194 species described thus far.W CalCOFI holds 968 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2010.R

968
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:1371%22