Chaetocerotaceae
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2026-09-04: itis_id 572759 via WoRMS external link
Chaetocerotaceae is a diatom family. Chaetoceros is perhaps the largest and most species rich genus of marine planktonic diatoms.W CalCOFI holds 3,148 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022, across 36 taxa under it.R
- 3,148
- observations
- 18,870
- records
- 1996–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 34
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Chaetoceros most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis 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:148984")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:148984'").df()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 2 taxa · Chaetoceros most observed
- G Chaetoceros15,590
- G Bacteriastrum3,280
Lineage 7 ranks · Chromista to Chaetocerotanae incertae sedis
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Stuart Humphries · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Chaetoceros · source
- Photo · Nguyen Tan Tin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Chaetocerotaceae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1338332415
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
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 ↗