Coccolithus

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-09-04WoRMS 178598ITIS 2248key worms:178598

2026-09-04: itis_id 2248 via WoRMS external link

Coccolithus is a genus of unicellular haptophytes in the family Coccolithaceae.W CalCOFI holds 29 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022.R

29
observations: 410
records: 1996–2022
years: 1
datasets

Photo · Hannes Grobe · 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.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:178598")

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

sp Coccolithus pelagicus410

Lineage 8 ranks · Chromista to Coccolithaceae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Emily Jane McTavish · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Coccolithus pelagicus · source
Photo · Hannes Grobe · CC BY 3.0 · commons · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Coccolithus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1323125215

Elsewhere Wikidata · GBIF

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 ↗