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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Dictyocha

WoRMS 157258ITIS 1804key worms:157258
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2026-09-04: itis_id 1804 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).

North-West Black Sea, surface water
Photo · Minami Himemiya · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Dictyocha is a genus of silicoflagellates, marine photosynthetic unicellular protists that take the form of either flagellates or axopodial amoebae. Described by Ehrenberg in 1837, Dictyocha contains many important species of the marine phytoplankton, some of them responsible for algal blooms that are toxic to fish.W CalCOFI holds 264 observations of it in 1 dataset.R

264
observations
421
records
1
datasets

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:157258")