Phylum · accepted · checked 2026-08-05
Cryptophyta
cryptophytes
WoRMS 17638key worms:17638
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).
The cryptomonads are a group of algae and colorless flagellates, most of which have plastids. They are traditionally considered a division of algae among phycologists, under the name of Cryptophyta.W CalCOFI holds 361 observations of it in 1 dataset.R
- 361
- 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 ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
R
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:17638")
Python
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:17638'").df()JSONthis taxon's entry of the release record, verbatim
https://calcofi.io/species/worms-17638.json