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Family · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Chaetocerotaceae

WoRMS 148984ITIS 572759key worms:148984
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2026-09-04: itis_id 572759 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Stuart Humphries · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Chaetoceros

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 Chaetocerotaceae
Photo · Nguyen Tan Tin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Chaetocerotaceae is a diatom family. Chaetoceros is perhaps the largest and most species rich genus of marine planktonic diatoms.W CalCOFI holds 3,178 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 40 taxa under it.R

3,178
observations
18,945
records
1
datasets
38
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 · 2 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:148984")