Vertebrata
vertebrates
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2026-08-05: itis_id 331030 via WoRMS external link
Vertebrates, also called craniates, are animals with a vertebral column and a cranium. The vertebral column surrounds and protects the spinal cord, while the cranium protects the brain.W CalCOFI holds 584,991 observations of it in 5 datasets between 1951 and 2023, across 989 taxa under it.R
- 584,991
- observations
- 952,705
- records
- 1951–2023
- years
- 5
- datasets
- 632
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:146419")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:146419'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, 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).
Under it 1 taxon
- iP Gnathostomata952,705
Lineage 3 ranks · Biota to Chordata
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Jamoytius kerwoodi · source
- Photo · Viktor V. Grøtan · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Vertebrate” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1374075022
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗