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Gymnodiniales

Orderaccepted · checked 2026-09-04WoRMS 109392ITIS 9994key worms:109392
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2026-09-04: itis_id 9994 via WoRMS external link

The Gymnodiniales are an order of dinoflagellates, of the class Dinophyceae. Members of the order are known as gymnodinioid or gymnodinoid.W CalCOFI holds 335 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022, across 8 taxa under it.R

335
observations
3,685
records
1996–2022
years
1
datasets
5
species under it
Light micrograph of vegetative cell of Ceratoperidinium margalefii. Scale bar = 10 μm.
Photo · Yue Jiang, Yuxin Peng, Hyeon Ho Shin, Hyun Jung Kim, Ki-Hyun Kim, Lingmin Jiang, Jiyoung Lee and Zhun Li · CC BY 4.0 · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 5 taxa · Gymnodiniaceae 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:109392")

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 5 taxa · Gymnodiniaceae most observed
Lineage 7 ranks · Chromista to Dinophyceae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Polykrikos schwartzii · source
  • Photo · Yue Jiang, Yuxin Peng, Hyeon Ho Shin, Hyun Jung Kim, Ki-Hyun Kim, Lingmin Jiang, Jiyoung Lee and Zhun Li · CC BY 4.0 · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Gymnodiniales” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1338606934
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

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 ↗