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Pyrocystis

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-09-04WoRMS 109571ITIS 10551key worms:109571
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2026-09-04: itis_id 10551 via WoRMS external link

calcofi_phytoplankton:dinoflagellate_athecate

CalCOFI holds 54 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022, across 4 taxa under it.R

54
observations
1,280
records
53
sampling events
1996–2022
years
1
datasets
3
species under it
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

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.

  • 53 obs53 events2019–2022
    name used: Pyrocystis dinoflagellate, athecate · code 622

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
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

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 3 taxa · Pyrocystis acuta most observed
Lineage 10 ranks · Chromista to Pyrocystaceae
Credits silhouette · photo
  • Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ceratium hirundinella · source
  • Photo · Aleksandra Szczerbiak · CC BY 4.0 · commons · source
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

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 ↗