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Class · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Xanthophyceae

WoRMS 17793ITIS 1883key worms:17793
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2026-08-05: itis_id 1883 via WoRMS external link

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

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 Xanthophyceae
Photo · Andrey Efremov · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Yellow-green algae or the Xanthophyceae (xanthophytes) are an important group of heterokont algae. Most live in fresh water, but some are found in marine and soil habitats.W CalCOFI holds 63 observations of it in 1 dataset.R

63
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:17793")