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Infraorder · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Pinnipedia

WoRMS 148736ITIS 180614key worms:148736
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180614 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Steven Traver · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Callorhinus ursinus

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).

Seal breathing hole.
Photo · NOAA Photo Library · Public domain · commons

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 is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 2 taxa

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/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:148736")