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Coccolithales

Orderaccepted · checked 2026-09-04WoRMS 493821key worms:493821

Coccolithales is an order of Haptophyceae. The Coccolithales has long been considered one of only two orders in the Coccolithophyceae, the other order being the Isochrysidales.W CalCOFI holds 1,033 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022, across 15 taxa under it.R

1,033
observations
6,562
records
1996–2022
years
1
datasets
9
species under it
Photograph of Coccolithales
Photo · Hannes Grobe/AWI · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 3 taxa · Calyptrosphaeraceae most observed, 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:493821")

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 · Calyptrosphaeraceae most observed
Lineage 6 ranks · Chromista to Prymnesiophycidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
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, v2026.10.20

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