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Dinophysis acuta

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-09-04WoRMS 109604ITIS 9930key worms:109604
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2026-09-04: itis_id 9930 via WoRMS external link

calcofi_phytoplankton:dinoflagellate_thecate

Dinophysis acuta is a species of flagellated planktons belonging to the genus Dinophysis. It is one of the few unusual photosynthetic protists that acquire plastids from algae by endosymbiosis.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022.R

1
observations
409
records
409
sampling events
1996–2022
years
1
datasets
Photograph of Dinophysis acuta
Photo · Geoff Morgan · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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.

  • 409 obs409 events1996–2022
    name used: Dinophysis acuta dinoflagellate, thecate · code 514

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:109604%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.

Lineage 10 ranks · Chromista to Dinophysis
Credits silhouette · photo · text
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 ↗