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Family · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Coccolithaceae

WoRMS 178597ITIS 2247key worms:178597
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2026-09-04: itis_id 2247 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Emily Jane McTavish · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Coccolithus pelagicus

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).

Major biogeneous components contributing to marine sediments are the remains of single celled plankton and benthos organisms. The hardpart shells are made out of silica (opal), i.e. radiolaria (a, ø=3
Photo · Hannes Grobe/AWI · CC BY 3.0 · commons

CalCOFI holds 29 observations of it in 1 dataset.R

29
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:178597")