Bacillariaceae
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2026-09-04: itis_id 572758 via WoRMS external link
Bacillariaceae is a family of diatoms, the only family in the order Bacillariales. Some species of genera such as Nitzschia are found in halophilic environments; for example, in the seasonally flooded Makgadikgadi Pans in Botswana.W CalCOFI holds 2,835 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022, across 10 taxa under it.R
- 2,835
- observations
- 9,038
- records
- 1996–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 7
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 4 taxa · Nitzschia 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:149002")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:149002'").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 4 taxa · Nitzschia most observed
- G Nitzschia6,158
- G Pseudo-nitzschia1,234
- G Fragilariopsis1,233
- G Cylindrotheca413
Lineage 7 ranks · Chromista to Bacillariales
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Matthew Crook · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Nitzschia sigmoidea · source
- Photo · Minami Himemiya · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Bacillariaceae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354739067
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 ↗