Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Pteropoda

pteropods

WoRMS 325345key worms:325345

Silhouette · severine Martini · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pteropoda

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 Pteropoda — Photo · davidcothran · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Pteropoda are specialized free-swimming pelagic sea snails and sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropods. Most live in the top 10 m of the ocean and are less than 1 cm long.W CalCOFI holds 1,216 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2010, across 3 taxa under it.R

1,216
observations: 3,051
records: 1951–2010
years: 1
datasets: 0
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 · 3 taxa

sO Euthecosomata MOLLUSCA EUTHECOSOMATA1,017
sO Gymnosomata naked pteropods1,017
sO Pseudothecosomata MOLLUSCA PSEUDOTHECOSOMATA1,017

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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:325345")

Pteropoda

Observed in

Under it · 3 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.