Octactis
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).
Octactis is a genus of silicoflagellates, marine photosynthetic unicellular protists that take the form of either flagellates or axopodial amoebae. Described by Josef Schiller in 1925, Octactis contains various species of marine phytoplankton, some of them responsible for algal blooms that are toxic to fish.W CalCOFI holds 183 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 2 taxa under it.R
- 183
- observations
- 842
- records
- 1
- datasets
- 2
- 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
- sp Octactis pulchra421
- sp Octactis speculum421
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:369960")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:369960'").df()