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Calcidiscus leptoporus

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-10-01WoRMS 235923key worms:235923calcofi_phytoplankton:coccolithophore

Calcidiscus leptoporus is a coccolithophore species found extensively globally both in the oceans and in the fossil record, which dates back to the Early Miocene.W CalCOFI holds 216 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022.R

216
observations
413
records
409
sampling events
1996–2022
years
1
datasets
Microfossils from a sediment core of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP), Calcidiscus leptoporus
Photo · Hannes Grobe (talk), Alfred Wegener Institute · 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.

  • 413 obs409 events1996–2022
    name used: Calcidiscus leptoporus coccolithophore · code 191

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:235923%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.11.05, 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 9 ranks · Chromista to Calcidiscus
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, v2026.11.05

Cite the release, v2026.11.05; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗