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Kingdom · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Animalia

Unidentified animal

WoRMS 2ITIS 202423GBIF 1key worms:2
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2026-08-05: itis_id 202423 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Vaveliksia vana

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 Animalia
Photo · Elias Levy · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms belonging to the biological kingdom Animalia. Animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, have muscle cells, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development.W CalCOFI holds 765,161 observations of it in 9 datasets between 1951 and 2026, across 1,093 taxa under it.R

765,161
observations
1,003,410
records
1951–2026
years
9
datasets
669
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 · 8 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:2")