Pinnipedia
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180614 via WoRMS external link
Pinnipeds, commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals. They comprise the extant families Odobenidae, Otariidae, and Phocidae, with 34 extant species and more than 50 extinct species described from fossils.W CalCOFI holds 1,750 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020, across 6 taxa under it.R
- 1,750
- observations
- 1,750
- records
- 1987–2020
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 5
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Otariidae 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:148736")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:148736'").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 10 ranks · Biota to Caniformia
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Steven Traver · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Callorhinus ursinus · source
- Photo · NOAA Photo Library · Public domain · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Pinniped” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1372906445
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 ↗