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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Pyrocystis

WoRMS 109571ITIS 10551key worms:109571
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2026-09-04: itis_id 10551 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).

Photo of dinoflagellata Pyrocystis fusiformis, also known as "glowing algae" made in a dark field microscope. The photo was taken during the study on the effect of light wavelength on the bioluminesce
Photo · Aleksandra Szczerbiak · CC BY 4.0 · commons

CalCOFI holds 62 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 4 taxa under it.R

62
observations
1,369
records
53
sampling events
1
datasets
3
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 53 obs · 53 events
    name used: Pyrocystis dinoflagellate, athecate · code 622

Under it · 3 taxa

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:109571%22