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Cryptodira

Suborderaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 148741ITIS 948943key worms:148741
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2026-08-05: itis_id 948943 via WoRMS external link

The Cryptodira are a suborder of Testudines that includes most living tortoises and turtles. Cryptodira is commonly called the "Hidden-Neck Turtles" or the "Inside-Neck Turtles".W CalCOFI holds 32 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2019, across 3 taxa under it.R

32
observations
32
records
1996–2019
years
1
datasets
3
species under it
Bashuchelys zigongensis, a bashuchelyid cryptodire.
Photo · Raingerr · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:148741")

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).

Under it 1 taxon
Lineage 8 ranks · Biota to Testudines
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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 ↗