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Subphylum · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Dinozoa

dinoflagellates

WoRMS 562620key worms:562620
Silhouette · Livio Ruzzante · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Plasmodium falciparum

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).

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

Dinozoa is a group of microorganisms composed of dinoflagellates and perkinsids. It was initially coined in 1981 as a synonym of dinoflagellates, but in 2004 the name was repurposed for the evolutionary lineage or clade of dinoflagellates and their closest relatives, the perkinsids.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:562620")