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Phaeocystis

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 115088ITIS 2172key worms:115088
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2026-08-05: itis_id 2172 via WoRMS external link

calcofi_phytoplankton:other

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 122 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022.R

122
observations
819
records
409
sampling events
1996–2022
years
1
datasets
Abgestorbene Schaumalgen (Phaeocystis globosa) im Spülsaum der ostfriesischen Nordseeinsel Juist (Niedersachsen, Deutschland)
Photo · 4028mdk09 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

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.

  • 819 obs409 events1996–2022
    no name in this dataset · code 337 code only
    name used: Phaeocystis other · code 523

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:115088%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).

Lineage 8 ranks · Chromista to Phaeocystaceae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

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 ↗