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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Thalassiosira

WoRMS 148912ITIS 2484key worms:148912
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2026-09-04: itis_id 2484 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Sarah Frail · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Thalassiosira pseudonana

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).

Hydrofront of Dnieper-Bug Liman
Photo · Minami Himemiya · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Thalassiosira is a genus of centric diatoms, comprising over 100 marine and freshwater species. It is a diverse group of photosynthetic eukaryotes that make up a vital part of marine and freshwater ecosystems, in which they are key primary producers and essential for carbon cycling.W CalCOFI holds 236 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 9 taxa under it.R

236
observations
3,789
records
1
datasets
9
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 · 9 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:148912")