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Phylum · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ochrophyta

brown algae

WoRMS 345465key worms:345465
Silhouette · Levi Simons · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Raphidophyceae

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Ochrophyta
Photo · Igor Shelpiakov · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Ochrophytes, also known as heterokontophytes or stramenochromes, are a phylum of algae. They are the photosynthetic stramenopiles, a group of eukaryotes, organisms with a cell nucleus, characterized by the presence of two unequal flagella, one of which has tripartite hairs called mastigonemes.W CalCOFI holds 513 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 5 taxa under it.R

513
observations
2,105
records
1
datasets
3
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 2 taxa

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:345465")