Phaeocystales

Orderaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 577970key worms:577970

Phaeocystis is a genus of algae belonging to the Prymnesiophyte class and to the larger division of Haptophyta. It is a widespread marine phytoplankton and can function at a wide range of temperatures (eurythermal) and salinities (euryhaline).W CalCOFI holds 122 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022.R

122
observations: 819
records: 1996–2022
years: 1
datasets

Photo · 4028mdk09 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

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.

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:577970")

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 1 taxon

F Phaeocystaceae819

Lineage 6 ranks · Chromista to Prymnesiophycidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Tree of Life App · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Alisphaera · source
Photo · 4028mdk09 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Phaeocystis” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1337939937

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 ↗