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Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Carnivora

carnivores

WoRMS 2687ITIS 180539key worms:2687
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180539 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Nandinia binotata

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 Carnivora
Photo · Original uploader was Pfinge at fr.wikipedia, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Carnivora is an order of placental mammals specialised primarily in eating flesh, whose members are formally referred to as carnivorans. The order Carnivora is the sixth largest order of mammals, comprising at least 293 species.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 · 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:2687")