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Order · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Dictyochales

WoRMS 157256ITIS 1802key worms:157256
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2026-09-04: itis_id 1802 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Levi Simons · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Dictyochophyceae

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 Dictyochales
Photo · Mathias · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The silicoflagellates are a small group of unicellular photosynthetic protists, or algae, belonging to the supergroup of eukaryotes known as Stramenopiles. They behave as phytoplankton and are present in oceanic waters.W CalCOFI holds 447 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 3 taxa under it.R

447
observations
1,263
records
1
datasets
3
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 · 1 taxon

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:157256")