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Suborder · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Gymnosomata

naked pteropods

WoRMS 164ITIS 78062key worms:164
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2026-08-05: itis_id 78062 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · MBARI and FathomVerse · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Clionidae

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).

Photograph of Gymnosomata
Photo · JA Fields · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Sea angels are a large group of small free-swimming sea slugs, classified into six separate families. They are pelagic opisthobranchs in the clade Gymnosomata within the larger mollusc clade Heterobranchia.W CalCOFI holds 140 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2010.R

140
observations
1,017
records
339
sampling events
1951–2010
years
1
datasets

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the ZooDB (Holoplankton Community) table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/cce-lter_zoodb.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:164%22