Reptilia

reptiles

Superclassaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 1838ITIS 173747key worms:1838

2026-08-05: itis_id 173747 via WoRMS external link

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are tetrapod vertebrate animals with an ectothermic metabolism and amniotic development. Reptiles traditionally comprise four orders: Testudines (turtles), Crocodilia, Squamata and Rhynchocephalia (tuatara), with about 12,000 extant species listed in the Reptile Database.W CalCOFI holds 32 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2019, across 3 taxa under it.R

32
observations: 32
records: 1996–2019
years: 1
datasets: 3
species under it

Photo · Kseniia Marianna Prondzynska · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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 inExplorer db-query R Python This 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:1838")

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

O Testudines turtles32

Lineage 6 ranks · Biota to Tetrapoda

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Paliguana whitei · source
Photo · Kseniia Marianna Prondzynska · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Reptile” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1374242918

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

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, v2026.10.19

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