Coccolithaceae

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-09-04WoRMS 178597ITIS 2247key worms:178597

2026-09-04: itis_id 2247 via WoRMS external link

CalCOFI holds 29 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022.R

Photo · Hannes Grobe/AWI · CC BY 3.0 · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:178597")

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 1 taxon

Lineage 7 ranks · Chromista to Coccolithales

Credits silhouette · photo

Silhouette · Emily Jane McTavish · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Coccolithus pelagicus · source
Photo · Hannes Grobe/AWI · CC BY 3.0 · commons · source

Elsewhere Wikidata · GBIF

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 ↗