Subphylum · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Tunicata

tunicates

WoRMS 146420ITIS 203347key worms:146420

2026-08-05: itis_id 203347 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · severine Martini · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Larvacea

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 Tunicata — Photo · Susanne Vogel · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Tunicates are marine invertebrates belonging to the subphylum Tunicata. This grouping is part of the Chordata, a phylum which includes all animals with dorsal nerve cords and notochords.W CalCOFI holds 14,972 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2026, across 4 taxa under it.R

14,972
observations: 22,596
records: 1951–2026
years: 2
datasets: 0
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

C Thaliacea salps15,731
C Appendicularia APPENDICULARIA6,865

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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:146420")

Tunicata

Observed in

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.