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Syracosphaera

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

calcofi_phytoplankton:coccolithophore

Syracosphaera is a genus of unicellular, marine coccolithophores belonging to the class Prymnesiophyceae in the phylum Haptophyta.W CalCOFI holds 374 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022, across 7 taxa under it.R

374
observations
2,868
records
409
sampling events
1996–2022
years
1
datasets
6
species under it
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Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

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: Syracosphaera coccolithophore · code 304

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:115084%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, 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 (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 6 taxa · Syracosphaera pirus most observed
Lineage 8 ranks · Chromista to Syracosphaeraceae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Syracosphaera subsalsa · source
  • Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Syracosphaera” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1369911864
Elsewhere Wikidata · GBIF

WikidataGBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗