CalCOFI.io CalCOFI.io open data ecosystem
Genus · accepted · checked 2026-10-01

Pseudo-nitzschia

WoRMS 149151ITIS 584561key worms:149151
i

2026-10-01: itis_id 584561 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Sarah Frail · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata

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).

Hydrofront of Dnieper-Bug Liman
Photo · Minami Himemiya · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Pseudo-nitzschia is a marine planktonic diatom genus that accounts for 4.4% of pennate diatoms found worldwide. Some species are capable of producing the neurotoxin domoic acid (DA), which is responsible for the neurological disorder in humans known as amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP).W CalCOFI holds 629 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022.R

629
observations
1,234
records
409
sampling events
1996–2022
years
1
datasets

Observed in
i

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 1,234 obs · 409 events · 1996–2022
    name used: Pseudo-nitzschia diatom, pennate · code 245
    name used: Pseudo-nitzschia diatom, pennate · code 400
    name used: Pseudo-nitzschia diatom, pennate · code 94

Groups

calcofi_phytoplankton:diatom_pennate

Ways in
i

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.14, 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:149151%22