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Family · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Noctilucaceae

WoRMS 109418ITIS 10147key worms:109418
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2026-09-04: itis_id 10147 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Noctiluca scintillans

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 Noctilucaceae
Photo · Cheng-Tao Lin · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The Noctilucaceae are a family of dinoflagellates. The family contains the widely distributed species Noctiluca scintillans.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset.R

3
observations
421
records
1
datasets

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:109418")