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Myzozoa

Phylumaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 450030key worms:450030

Myzozoa is a grouping of specific phyla within Alveolata, that either feed through myzocytosis, or were ancestrally capable of feeding through myzocytosis.W CalCOFI holds 4,171 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022, across 101 taxa under it.R

4,171
observations
56,019
records
1996–2022
years
1
datasets
73
species under it
Enlarge image for index to numbers. Ceratium tripos (Nitsch) = Neoceratium tripos (O.F.Müller) F.Gomez, D.Moreira & P.Lopez-Garcia Ornithocercus magnificus (Stein) = Ornithocercus magnificus Stein
Photo · Ernst Haeckel · Public domain · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:450030")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, 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 (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 1 taxon
Lineage 3 ranks · Chromista to Alveolata
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Livio Ruzzante · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Plasmodium falciparum · source
  • Photo · Ernst Haeckel · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Myzozoa” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1372374328
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.19

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗