Gerridae
pondskaters
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2026-08-05: itis_id 103801 via WoRMS external link
The Gerridae are a family of insects in the order Hemiptera, commonly known as water striders, water skeeters, water scooters, water bugs, pond skaters, water skippers, water gliders, water skimmers or puddle flies. They are true bugs of the suborder Heteroptera and have mouthparts evolved for piercing and sucking.W CalCOFI holds 434 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1999 and 2013.R
- 434
- observations
- 434
- records
- 1999–2013
- years
- 1
- datasets
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:160268")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:160268'").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).
Under it 1 taxon
- sF Halobatinae434
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Gerromorpha
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Tommaso Cancellario · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Gerris lacustris · source
- Photo · Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Gerridae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1365946332
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 ↗