Gephyrocapsa huxleyi
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 399 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022.R
- 399
- observations
- 413
- 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: Gephyrocapsa huxleyi 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:236056")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:236056'").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 Gephyrocapsa
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Emiliania huxleyi · source
- Photo · USGS, image courtesy of Steve Groom, NEODAAS UK · Public domain · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Gephyrocapsa huxleyi” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1373797833
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 ↗