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Species · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Pyrocystis fusiformis

WoRMS 110328ITIS 10553key worms:110328
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2026-09-04: itis_id 10553 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.

Photograph of Pyrocystis fusiformis
Photo · Marisol Gómez Suárez · CC BY-NC 4.0 · gbif NC

Pyrocystis fusiformis is a non-motile, tropical, epipelagic, marine dinoflagellate, reaching lengths of up to 1 millimetre (0.039 in). P. fusiformis display bioluminescence when disturbed or agitated.W CalCOFI holds 55 observations of it in 1 dataset.R

55
observations
474
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 474 obs · 409 events
    name used: Pyrocystis fusiformis dinoflagellate, athecate · code 178

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:110328%22