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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Phaeocystaceae

WoRMS 115072ITIS 2171key worms:115072
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2026-08-05: itis_id 2171 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Tree of Life App · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Alisphaera

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).

Abgestorbene Schaumalgen (Phaeocystis globosa) im Spülsaum der ostfriesischen Nordseeinsel Juist (Niedersachsen, Deutschland)
Photo · 4028mdk09 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Phaeocystis is a genus of algae belonging to the Prymnesiophyte class and to the larger division of Haptophyta. It is a widespread marine phytoplankton and can function at a wide range of temperatures (eurythermal) and salinities (euryhaline).W CalCOFI holds 128 observations of it in 1 dataset.R

128
observations
842
records
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:115072")