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Subclass · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Coscinodiscophycidae

WoRMS 148971ITIS 590736key worms:148971
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2026-09-04: itis_id 590736 via WoRMS external link

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

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

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

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:148971")