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Chaetoceros

WoRMS 148985ITIS 2758key worms:148985
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2026-09-04: itis_id 2758 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 Chaetoceros
Photo · John Sibley · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Chaetoceros is a genus of diatoms in the family Chaetocerotaceae, first described by the German naturalist C. G. Ehrenberg in 1844. Species of this genus are mostly found in marine habitats, but a few species exist in freshwater.W CalCOFI holds 2,757 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 32 taxa under it.R

2,757
observations
15,577
records
409
sampling events
1
datasets
31
species under it

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Phytoplankton 842 obs · 409 events
    name used: Chaetoceros diatom, centric · code 605
    name used: Chaetoceros diatom, centric · code 606

Under it · 31 taxa

1 more, fewer observations each

Groups

calcofi_phytoplankton:diatom_centric

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Phytoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/calcofi_phytoplankton.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:148985%22
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