Thaliacea
salps
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).
Thaliacea is a class of marine chordates within the subphylum Tunicata, comprising the salps, pyrosomes and doliolids. Unlike their benthic relatives the ascidians, from which they are believed to have emerged, thaliaceans are free-floating (pelagic) for their entire lifespan.W CalCOFI holds 8,390 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2026, across 3 taxa under it.R
- 8,390
- observations
- 15,731
- records
- 1951–2026
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 0
- 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 · 3 taxa
- O Doliolida DOLIOLIDA5,501
- O Salpida Salp5,155
- O Pyrosomatida PYROSOMA5,075
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:22626")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:22626'").df()