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Gonyaulax

WoRMS 109519ITIS 10359key worms:109519
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2026-09-04: itis_id 10359 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).

North-West Black Sea, coastal waters, at a depth of 0.5 metre
Photo · Minami Himemiya · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Gonyaulax is a genus of dinoflagellates with the type species Gonyaulax spinifera Diesing. Gonyaulax belongs to red dinoflagellates and commonly causes red tides.W CalCOFI holds 156 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 9 taxa under it.R

156
observations
3,789
records
409
sampling events
1
datasets
8
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: Gonyaulax dinoflagellate, thecate · code 613

Under it · 8 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:109519%22