Subclass · accepted · checked 2026-09-04
Coscinodiscophycidae
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).
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 5,844 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 105 taxa under it.R
- 5,844
- observations
- 45,942
- records
- 1
- datasets
- 90
- 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 · 7 taxa
- SO Chaetocerotanae19,366
- SO Coscinodiscanae9,736
- SO Thalassiosiranae6,736
- SO Rhizosolenianae5,894
- SO Biddulphianae3,368
- SO Corethranae421
- SO Lithodesmiophycanae421
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
R
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:148971")
Python
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:148971'").df()JSONthis taxon's entry of the release record, verbatim
https://calcofi.io/species/worms-148971.json