Tetrapoda
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2026-08-05: itis_id 914181 via WoRMS external link
A tetrapod is any vertebrate animal of the clade Tetrapoda. The main diagnostic and defining trait (synapomorphy) of tetrapods is having four limbs, connected to the shoulder- and pelvic girdles, for which the group is named.W CalCOFI holds 5,451 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1987 and 2022, across 35 taxa under it.R
- 5,451
- observations
- 5,451
- records
- 1987–2022
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 31
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Mammalia most observed, 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:1831")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:1831'").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 2 taxa · Mammalia most observed
Lineage 5 ranks · Biota to Gnathostomata
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Westlothiana lizziae · source
- Photo · Dixi at Polish Wikipedia · Public domain · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Tetrapod” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1370856867
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 ↗