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Phylum · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Foraminifera

foraminiferans

WoRMS 1410key worms:1410
Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Astrammina rara

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).

Photograph of Foraminifera
Photo · Chris Moody · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Foraminifera are single-celled organisms, members of a phylum or class of Rhizarian protists characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm for catching food and other uses; and commonly an external shell called a test of diverse forms and materials. Tests of chitin are believed to be the most primitive type.W CalCOFI holds 300 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2010.R

300
observations
1,017
records
339
sampling events
1951–2010
years
1
datasets

Observed in
i

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.

Ways in
i

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 ZooDB (Holoplankton Community) table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/cce-lter_zoodb.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:1410%22