Tunicata
tunicates
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2026-08-05: itis_id 203347 via WoRMS external link
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 keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Thaliacea most observed, 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:146420")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:146420'").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 2 taxa · Thaliacea most observed
- C Thaliacea salps15,731
- C Appendicularia APPENDICULARIA6,865
Lineage 3 ranks · Biota to Chordata
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · severine Martini · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Larvacea · source
- Photo · Susanne Vogel · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Tunicate” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1374118749
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 ↗