Cetacea
whales, dolphins and porpoises
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180403 via WoRMS external link
Cetaceans are marine mammals belonging to the infraorder Cetacea, a secondarily aquatic clade under the order Artiodactyla that include whales, dolphins, porpoises and extinct groups such as Basilosaurus.W CalCOFI holds 2,863 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1987 and 2022, across 24 taxa under it.R
- 2,863
- observations
- 2,863
- records
- 1987–2022
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 22
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Odontoceti 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:2688")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:2688'").df()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 2 taxa · Odontoceti most observed
- SF Odontoceti toothed whales2,265
- SF Mysticeti baleen whales598
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Cetancodonta
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Scott Hartman · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Cetacea · source
- Photo · Rene Ehrhardt · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Cetacean” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1374064020
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
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 ↗