Coscinodiscophycidae

Subclassaccepted · checked 2026-09-04WoRMS 148971ITIS 590736key worms:148971

2026-09-04: itis_id 590736 via WoRMS external link

Coscinodiscophycidae is a subclass of diatoms, previously known as "Centrales", a paraphyletic order of centric diatoms, a major group of algae and one of the most common members of the phytoplankton.W CalCOFI holds 6,034 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022, across 105 taxa under it.R

6,034
observations: 48,400
records: 1996–2022
years: 1
datasets: 84
species under it

Photo · Sally Anderson · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 7 taxa · Chaetocerotanae most observed, 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:148971")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, 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 7 taxa · Chaetocerotanae most observed

Lineage 4 ranks · Chromista to Bacillariophyceae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Emily Jane McTavish · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Triceratium robertsianum · source
Photo · Sally Anderson · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Coscinodiscophycidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1315982869

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

Wikidata iNaturalist

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.19

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗