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Theria

Subclassaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 380416ITIS 179916key worms:380416
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2026-08-05: itis_id 179916 via WoRMS external link

Theria is a subclass of mammals amongst the Theriiformes. Theria contains the eutherians and the metatherians but excludes the egg-laying monotremes and various extinct mammals evolving prior to the common ancestor of placentals and marsupials.W CalCOFI holds 4,615 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1987 and 2022, across 31 taxa under it.R

4,615
observations
4,615
records
1987–2022
years
2
datasets
28
species under it
Photograph of Theria
Photo · Vince Smith · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Cetartiodactyla most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:380416")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, 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 2 taxa · Cetartiodactyla most observed
Lineage 7 ranks · Biota to Mammalia
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Zalambdalestes lechi · source
  • Photo · Vince Smith · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Theria” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1361242775
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.19

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗