Genus · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Coscinodiscus

WoRMS 148917ITIS 2546key worms:148917

2026-09-04: itis_id 2546 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Emily Jane McTavish · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Triceratium robertsianum

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).

Highly porous hierarchical structure of a Coscinodiscus oculus-iridis (Ehrenberg) Ehrenberg 1840 diatom shell. Colored SEM image acquired with TESCAN CLARA SEM. Sample without any conductive layer, 1k — Photo · Pavel.Somov · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons

Coscinodiscus is a genus of centric diatoms in the family Coscinodiscaceae. It is the type genus of its family.W CalCOFI holds 97 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 13 taxa under it.R

97
observations: 5,473
records: 1
datasets: 10
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 · 12 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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:148917")

Coscinodiscus

Observed in

Under it · 12 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

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/.