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Suborder · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Caniformia

WoRMS 254957ITIS 552303key worms:254957
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2026-08-05: itis_id 552303 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Simocyon

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).

Caniforms from left to right: Wolf (Canis lupus), Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), Raccoon (Procyon lotor), Striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis), Red panda (Ailurus fulgens), Wolverine (Gulo gulo)
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Caniformia is a suborder within the order Carnivora consisting of "dog-like" carnivorans. They include dogs, bears, raccoons, mustelids, and pinnipeds.W CalCOFI holds 1,752 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020, across 7 taxa under it.R

1,752
observations
1,752
records
1987–2020
years
1
datasets
6
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 · 2 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:254957")