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Family · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Ceratiaceae

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

Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ceratium hirundinella

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).

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

Ceratiaceae is a family of dinoflagellates in the order Gonyaulacales.W CalCOFI holds 335 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 22 taxa under it.R

335
observations
8,638
records
1
datasets
21
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 · 2 taxa

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:109421")