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Superclass · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Reptilia

reptiles

WoRMS 1838ITIS 173747key worms:1838
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2026-08-05: itis_id 173747 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Paliguana whitei

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 Reptilia
Photo · Kseniia Marianna Prondzynska · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

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:1838")