Ethmodiscus

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-09-04WoRMS 148940ITIS 2614key worms:148940

2026-09-04: itis_id 2614 via WoRMS external link

Ethmodiscus is a genus of diatoms found widely scattered throughout the intertropical and temperate zones in the world's oceans. The large diatom genus can get up to 2mm in size, and it has distinct cell features like a vacuole that comprises over 99% of its cell's volume.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2019 and 2022.R

1
observations: 53
records: 2019–2022
years: 1
datasets

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

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This 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:148940")

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 1 taxon

sp Ethmodiscus punctiger53

Lineage 8 ranks · Chromista to Ethmodiscaceae

Credits silhouette · text

Silhouette · Emily Jane McTavish · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Triceratium robertsianum · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Ethmodiscus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1338333889

Elsewhere Wikidata · GBIF

Wikidata 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 ↗