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Species · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Noctiluca scintillans

WoRMS 109921ITIS 10150key worms:109921
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2026-09-04: itis_id 10150 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Noctiluca scintillans

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon.

Photograph of Noctiluca scintillans
Photo · Cheng-Tao Lin · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Noctiluca is a genus of dinoflagellates in the family Noctilucaceae. Its only species is Noctiluca scintillans, a marine species that can exist in a green or red form, depending on the pigmentation in its vacuoles.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset.R

3
observations
421
records
409
sampling events
1
datasets

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: Noctiluca scintillans dinoflagellate, athecate · code 270

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:109921%22