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Infraphylum · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Gnathostomata

WoRMS 1828ITIS 157978key worms:1828
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2026-08-05: itis_id 157978 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ptomacanthus anglicus

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).

Nerepisacanthus denisoni (Acanthodii), Bothriolepis canadensis (Placodermi); Mobula alfredi, Carcharodon carcharias (Chondrichthyes); Perca flavescens (Actinopterygii), Latimeria chalumnae (Sarcoptery
Photo · Danielle Dufault Citron Jaine FRA, Couturier LIE, Weeks SJ, Townsend KA, Bennett MB, et al. Elias Levy Hadal JaffaFalcon · Public domain · commons

Gnathostomata are jawed vertebrates. Gnathostome diversity comprises roughly 60,000 species, which accounts for 99% of all extant vertebrates, including all living bony fishes and cartilaginous fishes, as well as extinct prehistoric fish such as placoderms and acanthodians.W CalCOFI holds 530,730 observations of it in 4 datasets between 1951 and 2023, across 955 taxa under it.R

530,730
observations
721,593
records
1951–2023
years
4
datasets
603
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:1828")