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Order · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Prorocentrales

WoRMS 109396ITIS 9875key worms:109396
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2026-09-04: itis_id 9875 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Polykrikos schwartzii

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 Prorocentrales
Photo · Sarka Martinez · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat NC

The Prorocentrales are a small order of dinoflagellates. They are distinguished by having their two flagella inserted apically, rather than ventrally as in other groups.W CalCOFI holds 515 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 11 taxa under it.R

515
observations
4,263
records
1
datasets
9
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 · 1 taxon

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:109396")