Appendicularia
APPENDICULARIA
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2026-08-05: itis_id 159664 via WoRMS external link
Larvaceans, copelates or appendicularians, class Appendicularia, are solitary, free-swimming tunicates found throughout the world's oceans. While larvaceans are filter feeders like most other tunicates, they keep their tadpole-like shape as adults, with the notochord running through the tail.W CalCOFI holds 6,582 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2026.R
- 6,582
- observations
- 6,865
- records
- 1,818
- sampling events
- 1951–2026
- years
- 2
- datasets
Observed in 2 datasetsi
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: Appendicularia appendicularia · code
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name used: Appendicularia APPENDICULARIA · 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:146421")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:146421'").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).
Lineage 4 ranks · Biota to Tunicata
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · severine Martini · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Larvacea · source
- Photo · Daniel J. Drew, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Larvacean” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1373309030
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, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗