Siphonophorae
Siphonophore
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2026-08-05: itis_id 718928 via WoRMS external link
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 2021.R
- 968
- observations
- 1,005
- records
- 335
- sampling events
- 1951–2021
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it 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, and beside it 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: Siphonophorae SIPHONOPHORA · code
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Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1371")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:1371'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Lineage 6 ranks · Biota to Hydroidolina
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · MBARI and FathomVerse · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Kephyes ovata · source
- Photo · Catriona Munro · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Siphonophore” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1372825121
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.20
Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗