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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Syracosphaera

WoRMS 115084ITIS 2234key worms:115084
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2026-09-04: itis_id 2234 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Syracosphaera subsalsa

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).

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Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

Syracosphaera is a genus of unicellular, marine coccolithophores belonging to the class Prymnesiophyceae in the phylum Haptophyta.W CalCOFI holds 380 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 6 taxa under it.R

380
observations
2,526
records
1
datasets
6
species under it

Observed in

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

Under it · 6 taxa

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:115084")