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Akashiwo

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-09-04WoRMS 231787key worms:231787

Akashiwo sanguinea is a species of marine dinoflagellates well known for forming blooms that result in red tides. It is the only species in the genus Akashiwo.W CalCOFI holds 39 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022.R

39
observations
411
records
1996–2022
years
1
datasets
North-West Black Sea, coastal waters, at a depth of 0.5 metre
Photo · Minami Himemiya · CC BY-SA 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 inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:231787")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, 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 9 ranks · Chromista to Gymnodiniaceae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.19

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗