Suborder · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Cetancodonta

WoRMS 370545key worms:370545

Silhouette · Michael Tripoli · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Thaumastognathus quercyi

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).

Montages of: File:Hippo pod edit.jpg Paul Maritz File:Mother and baby sperm whale.jpg Gabriel Barathieu File:Indohyus BW.jpg Nobu Tamura File:Pakicetus attocki, ROM.jpg D. Gordon E. Robertson]] — Photo · Bs4234 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons

Whippomorpha is a clade of Artiodactyla that contains all living cetaceans (whales) and Hippopotamidae. This makes it a crown group.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 · 1 taxon

iO Cetacea whales, dolphins and porpoises2,761

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:370545")

Cetancodonta

Observed in

Under it · 1 taxon

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/.