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Braarudosphaera bigelowii

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-09-04WoRMS 235922key worms:235922calcofi_phytoplankton:coccolithophore

Braarudosphaera bigelowii is a coastal coccolithophore in the fossil record going back 100 million years to the Late Cretaceous. Due to endosymbiontic integration, it has obtained a nitrogen-fixing organelle called a nitroplast.W CalCOFI holds 7 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022.R

7
observations
409
records
409
sampling events
1996–2022
years
1
datasets
(A) SEM image of a cell of B. bigelowii surrounded by 12 pentaliths (offshore Tomari, 17th June 2012). A pentalith (calcareous scale of the Braarudosphaeraceae) indicated by the blue open pentagon con
Photo · Kyoko Hagino, Ryo Onuma, Masanobu Kawachi, Takeo Horiguchi · CC BY 3.0 · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.

  • 409 obs409 events1996–2022
    name used: Braarudosphaera bigelowii coccolithophore · code 182

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Phytoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/calcofi_phytoplankton.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:235922%22

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.

Lineage 8 ranks · Chromista to Braarudosphaera
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · GBIF

WikidataGBIF

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 ↗