Thoracosphaera

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-09-04WoRMS 109558ITIS 2280key worms:109558

2026-09-04: itis_id 2280 via WoRMS external link

CalCOFI holds 16 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022.R

Photo · Hannes Grobe/AWI · CC BY 3.0 · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:109558")

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 1 taxon

Lineage 9 ranks · Chromista to Thoracosphaeraceae

Credits silhouette · photo

Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Polykrikos schwartzii · source
Photo · Hannes Grobe/AWI · CC BY 3.0 · commons · source

Elsewhere Wikidata

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 ↗