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Dictyochaceae

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-09-04WoRMS 157257ITIS 1803key worms:157257
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2026-09-04: itis_id 1803 via WoRMS external link

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 439 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022, across 3 taxa under it.R

439
observations
1,235
records
1996–2022
years
1
datasets
2
species under it
Photograph of Dictyochaceae
Photo · Donát Magyar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Octactis most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:157257")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 2 taxa · Octactis most observed
Lineage 6 ranks · Chromista to Dictyochales
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗