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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Akashiwo

WoRMS 231787key worms:231787
Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Polykrikos schwartzii

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).

North-West Black Sea, coastal waters, at a depth of 0.5 metre
Photo · Minami Himemiya · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

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 40 observations of it in 1 dataset.R

40
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:231787")