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Family · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Syracosphaeraceae

WoRMS 146199ITIS 2186key worms:146199
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2026-09-04: itis_id 2186 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).

Scanning electron microscope image of Syracosphaera azureaplaneta. Blue colour added for use by BBC news, as part of story on naming of the species after the Blue Planet tv series
Photo · Jeremy Young · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons

Syracosphaeraceae is a family of algae consisting of the following genera:Calciopappus Gaarder & Ramsfjell, 1954 Caneosphaera Gaarder, 1977 Coronosphaera Gaarder, 1977 Deutschlandia Lohmann, 1912 Lohmannosphaera Schiller, 1913 Michaelsarsia Gran, 1912 Ophiaster Gran, 1912 Syracosphaera Lohmann, 1902…W CalCOFI holds 774 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 9 taxa under it.R

774
observations
4,210
records
1
datasets
7
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 · 4 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:146199")