Cetacea
whales, dolphins and porpoises
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).
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 2,761 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020, across 23 taxa under it.R
- 2,761
- observations
- 2,761
- records
- 1987–2020
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 22
- 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
- SF Odontoceti toothed whales2,167
- SF Mysticeti baleen whales594
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:2688")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:2688'").df()