Animalia
Unidentified animal
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2026-08-05: itis_id 202423 via WoRMS external link
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 837,441 observations of it in 10 datasets between 1951 and 2026, across 1,127 taxa under it.R
- 837,441
- observations
- 1,274,989
- records
- 1951–2026
- years
- 10
- datasets
- 698
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 8 taxa · Chordata 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:2")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:2'").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 8 taxa · Chordata most observed
- P Chordata975,301
- P Arthropoda arthropods170,661
- P Mollusca molluscs101,160
- P Cnidaria Jellyfish7,890
- P Chaetognatha arrow worms6,937
- P Annelida segmented worms6,487
- P Bryozoa bryozoans5,548
- P Ctenophora Comb jelly1,005
Lineage 1 rank · Biota
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Vaveliksia vana · source
- Photo · Elias Levy · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Animal” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1374112454
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
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 ↗