Coscinodiscus
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2026-09-04: itis_id 2546 via WoRMS external link
Coscinodiscus is a genus of centric diatoms in the family Coscinodiscaceae. It is the type genus of its family.W CalCOFI holds 86 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022, across 13 taxa under it.R
- 86
- observations
- 5,318
- records
- 1996–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 11
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 13 taxa · Coscinodiscus marginatus most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:148917")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:148917'").df()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).
Under it 13 taxa · Coscinodiscus marginatus most observed
- sp Coscinodiscus marginatus410
- sp Coscinodiscus africanus409
- sp Coscinodiscus angustelineatus409
- sp Coscinodiscus centralis409
- sp Coscinodiscus concinnus409
- sp Coscinodiscus curvatulus409
- sp Coscinodiscus granii409
- sp Coscinodiscus oculus-iridis409
- sp Coscinodiscus perforatus409
- sp Coscinodiscus radiatus409
- sp Coscinodiscus sol409
- sp Coscinodiscus stellaris409
- sp Coscinodiscus wailesii409
Lineage 8 ranks · Chromista to Coscinodiscaceae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Emily Jane McTavish · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Triceratium robertsianum · source
- Photo · Pavel.Somov · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Coscinodiscus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1371836708
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Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
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 ↗