Cetancodonta
Whippomorpha is a clade of Artiodactyla that contains all living cetaceans (whales) and Hippopotamidae. This makes it a crown group.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
![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]]](https://storage.googleapis.com/calcofi-files-public/species-media/taxa/worms-370545/photo.webp)
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, 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:370545")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:370545'").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 1 taxon
- iO Cetacea whales, dolphins and porpoises2,863
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Cetartiodactyla
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Michael Tripoli · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Thaumastognathus quercyi · source
- Photo · Bs4234 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Whippomorpha” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1372992292
Elsewhere Wikidata
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 ↗