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Ceratiaceae

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-09-04WoRMS 109421ITIS 10396key worms:109421
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2026-09-04: itis_id 10396 via WoRMS external link

Ceratiaceae is a family of dinoflagellates in the order Gonyaulacales.W CalCOFI holds 442 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022, across 21 taxa under it.R

442
observations
10,041
records
1996–2022
years
1
datasets
20
species under it
Microphotograph of Ceratium furca isolated from a mangrove swamp in Thailand. A: Light micrograph. B: Fluorescence micrograph showing Kofoid system of tabulation. Scale bar = 25 µm.
Photo · Tatsuya Yurimoto, Dusit Aue-umneoy, Chonlada Meeanan & Isao Tsutsui · CC BY 4.0 · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Tripos 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:109421")

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 2 taxa · Tripos most observed
Lineage 9 ranks · Chromista to Gonyaulacales
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ceratium hirundinella · source
  • Photo · Tatsuya Yurimoto, Dusit Aue-umneoy, Chonlada Meeanan &amp; Isao Tsutsui · CC BY 4.0 · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Ceratiaceae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1074546805
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 ↗