Pteropoda

pteropods

Orderaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 325345key worms:325345

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 2021, across 3 taxa under it.R

1,216
observations: 3,051
records: 1951–2021
years: 1
datasets: 0
species under it

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

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 3 taxa · Euthecosomata most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This 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:325345")

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 3 taxa · Euthecosomata most observed

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

Lineage 7 ranks · Biota to Tectipleura

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · severine Martini · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pteropoda · source
Photo · davidcothran · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Pteropoda” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1369104575

Elsewhere Wikidata · GBIF

Wikidata 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 ↗