Osteichthyes
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161030 via WoRMS external link
Osteichthyes, also known as osteichthyans or commonly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse clade of vertebrate animals that have endoskeletons primarily composed of bone tissue, encompassing both the conventional bony fishes and, in a cladistic sense, all tetrapods, including mammals and reptiles.W CalCOFI holds 579,540 observations of it in 4 datasets between 1951 and 2023, across 954 taxa under it.R
- 579,540
- observations
- 947,254
- records
- 1951–2023
- years
- 4
- datasets
- 601
- species under it
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
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:152352")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:152352'").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 1 taxon
- gC Actinopterygii ray-finned fishes947,254
Lineage 5 ranks · Biota to Gnathostomata
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Guiyu oneiros · source
- Photo · From a variety of images credited above. · CC BY 4.0 · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Osteichthyes” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1370196712
Elsewhere Wikidata
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 ↗