Family · accepted · checked 2026-09-04
Bacillariaceae
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).
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 2,225 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 11 taxa under it.R
- 2,225
- observations
- 6,736
- records
- 1
- datasets
- 11
- 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 · 3 taxa
- G Nitzschia5,473
- G Fragilariopsis842
- G Cylindrotheca421
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
R
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:149002")
Python
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:149002'").df()JSONthis taxon's entry of the release record, verbatim
https://calcofi.io/species/worms-149002.json