Phylum · accepted · checked 2026-08-05
Mollusca
molluscs
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).
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks. 86,600 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda.W CalCOFI holds 34,580 observations of it in 4 datasets between 1951 and 2026, across 59 taxa under it.R
- 34,580
- observations
- 60,695
- records
- 1951–2026
- years
- 4
- datasets
- 26
- 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 · 2 taxa
- C Cephalopoda cephalopods50,775
- C Gastropoda Snails9,920
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
R
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:51")
Python
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:51'").df()JSONthis taxon's entry of the release record, verbatim
https://calcofi.io/species/worms-51.json