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Dinophysis

WoRMS 109462ITIS 9928key worms:109462
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2026-09-04: itis_id 9928 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).

Dinophysis acuminata Claparède et Lachmann, 1859 Formalin fixed sample, surface, sampling station 7 (North Sea). Species originally described in1859. The antapical portion of the cell is rounded and c
Photo · fjouenne · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Dinophysis is a genus of dinoflagellates common in tropical, temperate, coastal and oceanic waters. It was first described in 1839 by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.W CalCOFI holds 61 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 8 taxa under it.R

61
observations
3,112
records
409
sampling events
1
datasets
7
species under it

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Phytoplankton 421 obs · 409 events
    name used: Dinophysis dinoflagellate, thecate · code 610

Under it · 7 taxa

Groups

calcofi_phytoplankton:dinoflagellate_thecate

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Phytoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/calcofi_phytoplankton.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:109462%22