Coscinodiscus africanus

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-09-04WoRMS 573407key worms:573407

2026-09-04: WoRMS Coscinodiscus africanus unaccepted -> Coscinodiscus africanus var. africanus (worms:977643)

CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022.R

Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

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.

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:573407")

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.

Under it 1 taxon

Lineage 9 ranks · Chromista to Coscinodiscus

Credits silhouette · photo

Silhouette · Emily Jane McTavish · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Triceratium robertsianum · source
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif · source

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