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Species · unassessed · checked 2026-09-04

Chaetoceros danicus

unassessed the authority does not list this name as accepted; the datasets below still key their observations to it.

WoRMS 149120ITIS 2789key worms:149120
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2026-09-04: itis_id 2789 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.

Photograph of Chaetoceros danicus
Photo · Sarka Martinez · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Chaetoceros danicus is a marine unicellular species of diatom in the family Chaetocerotaceae, first described by Cleve in 1889. Individual cells of C. danicus do not form long chains, unlike most other species of Chaetoceros.W CalCOFI holds 57 observations of it in 1 dataset.R

57
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: Chaetoceros danicus diatom, centric · code 361

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:149120%22