Rhabdosphaera clavigera
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2026-10-01: itis_id 2264 via WoRMS external link
Rhabdosphaera clavigera is a marine, unicellular species of coccolithophore in the genus Rhabdosphaera. The species name references the Latin word claviger to describe the pentameral (five-point) spines emerging from the calcium carbonate coccosphere.W CalCOFI holds 196 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022.R
- 196
- observations
- 412
- records
- 409
- sampling events
- 1996–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in 1 dataseti
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.
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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.
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name used: Rhabdosphaera clavigera coccolithophore · code
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Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:235972")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:235972'").df()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 9 ranks · Chromista to Rhabdosphaera
Credits silhouette · text
- Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Discosphaera tubifera · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Rhabdosphaera clavigera” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1220075800
Elsewhere Wikidata · GBIF
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 ↗