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Phylum · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Mollusca

molluscs

WoRMS 51ITIS 69458key worms:51
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2026-08-05: itis_id 69458 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Scott Hartman · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Mollusca

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).

Photograph of Mollusca
Photo · Minette Layne · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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

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/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:51")