Syracosphaerales

Orderaccepted · checked 2026-09-04WoRMS 493820key worms:493820

Syracosphaerales is an order of algae consisting of three families:Calciosoleniaceae Kamptner, 1937 Rhabdosphaeraceae Lemmermann, 1908 Syracosphaeraceae Lemmermann, 1908…W CalCOFI holds 1,573 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022, across 20 taxa under it.R

1,573
observations: 8,204
records: 1996–2022
years: 1
datasets: 13
species under it

Photo · Monteiro, F.M., Bach, L.T., Brownlee, C., Bown, P., Rickaby, R.E., Poulton, A.J., Tyrrell, T., Beaufort, L., Dutkiewicz, S., Gibbs, S. and Gutowska, M.A. · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 3 taxa · Syracosphaeraceae most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:493820")

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 (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 3 taxa · Syracosphaeraceae most observed

Lineage 6 ranks · Chromista to Prymnesiophycidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Syracosphaera subsalsa · source
Photo · Monteiro, F.M., Bach, L.T., Brownlee, C., Bown, P., Rickaby, R.E., Poulton, A.J., Tyrrell, T., Beaufort, L., Dutkiewicz, S., Gibbs, S. and Gutowska, M.A. · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Syracosphaerales” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1323118908

Elsewhere Wikidata · GBIF

Wikidata GBIF

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

Cite the release, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗