Noctilucales
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2026-09-04: itis_id 573278 via WoRMS external link
The Noctilucales are an order of marine dinoflagellates. They differ from most others in that the mature cell is diploid and its nucleus does not show a dinokaryotic organization.W CalCOFI holds 122 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022, across 5 taxa under it.R
- 122
- observations
- 2,046
- records
- 1996–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 2
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 3 taxa · Kofoidiniaceae most observed, 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:109393")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:109393'").df()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 3 taxa · Kofoidiniaceae most observed
- F Kofoidiniaceae819
- F Protodiniferaceae818
- F Noctilucaceae409
Lineage 7 ranks · Chromista to Dinophyceae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Noctiluca scintillans · source
- Photo · Cheng-Tao Lin · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Noctilucales” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1314337474
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
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 ↗