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Carnivora

carnivores

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

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

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:2687")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, 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 1 taxon
Lineage 8 ranks · Biota to Theria
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Nandinia binotata · source
  • Photo · Original uploader was Pfinge at fr.wikipedia, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Carnivora” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1372547336
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗