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Infrakingdom · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Alveolata

WoRMS 536209key worms:536209
Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Colponema vietnamica

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 Alveolata
Photo · Dean Nicolle · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The alveolates are a group of protists, considered a major clade within Eukaryota. They are currently grouped with the Stramenopiles and Rhizaria among the protists with tubulocristate mitochondria into the SAR supergroup.W CalCOFI holds 4,193 observations of it in 1 dataset, across 114 taxa under it.R

4,193
observations
57,227
records
1
datasets
95
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 · 1 taxon

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:536209")