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Species · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Skeletonema costatum

WoRMS 149074ITIS 2402key worms:149074
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2026-09-04: itis_id 2402 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Thalassiosirales

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon.

Photograph of Skeletonema costatum
Photo · NOAA Photo Library · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Skeletonema costatum is a cosmopolitan centric diatom that belongs to the genus Skeletonema. It was first described by R. K. Greville, who originally named it Melosira costata, in 1866.W CalCOFI holds 105 observations of it in 1 dataset.R

105
observations
421
records
409
sampling events
1
datasets

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 421 obs · 409 events
    name used: Skeletonema costatum diatom, centric · code 355

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:149074%22