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Gephyrocapsa

WoRMS 235823ITIS 2257key worms:235823
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2026-09-04: itis_id 2257 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Emiliania huxleyi

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).

Microscopic images of different individuals of Oxyrrhis marina with ingested prey. (A) calcified and (B) decalcified Gephyrocapsa huxleyi [Emiliania huxleyi] after 24 h. (C) calcified and (D) decalcif
Photo · Mathias Haunost, Ulf Riebesell, Francesco D’Amore, Ole Kelting, Lennart T. Bach · CC BY 4.0 · commons

Gephyrocapsa is a genus of haptophytes.W CalCOFI holds 858 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 4 taxa under it.R

858
observations
1,684
records
409
sampling events
1
datasets
3
species under it

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Phytoplankton 421 obs · 409 events
    name used: Gephyrocapsa coccolithophore · code 196

Under it · 3 taxa

Groups

calcofi_phytoplankton:coccolithophore

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Phytoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/calcofi_phytoplankton.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:235823%22