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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Pterosperma

WoRMS 160595ITIS 9581key worms:160595
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2026-08-05: itis_id 9581 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Matthew Crook · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pterosperma

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 Pterosperma
Photo · Victor Hensen (? -1924), no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Pterosperma is a genus of green algae in the order Pyramimonadales. It is found in the plankton of all oceans.W CalCOFI holds 8 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022, across 2 taxa under it.R

8
observations
2,454
records
409
sampling events
1996–2022
years
1
datasets
1
species under it

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 2,045 obs · 409 events · 1996–2022
    no name in this dataset · code 231 code only
    name used: Pterosperma other · code 334
    name used: Pterosperma other · code 335
    no name in this dataset · code 40 code only
    no name in this dataset · code 597 code only

Under it · 1 taxon

Groups

calcofi_phytoplankton:other

Ways in
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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:160595%22