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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Bacteriastrum

WoRMS 149118ITIS 2862key worms:149118
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2026-09-04: itis_id 2862 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 Bacteriastrum
Photo · Sarka Martinez · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat NC

Bacteriastrum is a genus of diatoms in family Chaetocerotaceae. There are more than 30 described species in genus Bacteriastrum, but many of these are not currently accepted, and new species are still added to the genus.W CalCOFI holds 421 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 8 taxa under it.R

421
observations
3,368
records
409
sampling events
1
datasets
7
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 421 obs · 409 events
    name used: Bacteriastrum diatom, centric · code 604

Under it · 7 taxa

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:149118%22