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Torodinium

WoRMS 109479ITIS 10121key worms:109479
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2026-09-04: itis_id 10121 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).

Torodinium (ˌtɔɹoʊˈdɪniəm) is a genus of unarmored dinoflagellates and comprises two species, Torodinium robustum and the type species Torodinium teredo. The establishment of Torodinium, as well as the characterization of the majority of its morphology, occurred in 1921 and further advances since have been slow.W CalCOFI holds 192 observations of it in 1 dataset.R

192
observations
421
records
409
sampling events
1
datasets

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: Torodinium dinoflagellate, athecate · code 170

Groups

calcofi_phytoplankton:dinoflagellate_athecate

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:109479%22