Nitzschia
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).
Nitzschia is a common pennate marine and freshwater diatom. In the scientific literature, this genus, named after Christian Ludwig Nitzsch, is sometimes referred to incorrectly as Nitzchia, and it has many species described, which all have a similar morphology.W CalCOFI holds 1,433 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 8 taxa under it.R
- 1,433
- observations
- 5,473
- records
- 1
- datasets
- 8
- 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 · 8 taxa
- sp Nitzschia bicapitata1,263
- sp Nitzschia sicula1,263
- sp Nitzschia americana842
- sp Nitzschia braarudii421
- sp Nitzschia kolaczekii421
- sp Nitzschia longissima421
- sp Nitzschia marina421
- sp Nitzschia tenuirostris421
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/.
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:149045")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:149045'").df()