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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Asterionella

WoRMS 148953ITIS 3116key worms:148953
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2026-09-04: itis_id 3116 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Sarah Frail · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Asterionella

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).

Photograph of Asterionella
Photo · Antonio Guillén · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat NC

Asterionella is a genus of pennate freshwater diatoms. They are frequently found in star-shaped colonies of individuals.W CalCOFI holds 77 observations of it in 1 dataset.R

77
observations
421
records
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

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:148953")