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Species · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Gephyrocapsa huxleyi

WoRMS 236056key worms:236056
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.

Under certain conditions, Emiliania huxleyi can form massive blooms which can be detected by satellite remote sensing. What looks like white clouds in the water, is in fact the reflected light from bi
Photo · USGS, image courtesy of Steve Groom, NEODAAS UK · Public domain · commons

Gephyrocapsa huxleyi, also called Emiliania huxleyi, is the most abundant species of coccolithophore in modern oceans found in almost all ecosystems from the equator to sub-polar regions, and from nutrient rich upwelling zones to nutrient poor oligotrophic waters.W CalCOFI holds 407 observations of it in 1 dataset.R

407
observations
421
records
409
sampling events
1
datasets

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 huxleyi coccolithophore · code 187

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:236056%22