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Family · accepted · checked 2026-09-04

Kareniaceae

WoRMS 599664key worms:599664
Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Polykrikos schwartzii

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).

Kareniaceae is an accepted marine family of relatively small, toxic, unarmored dinoflagellates belonging to the order Gymnodiniales. Species in the Kareniaceae clade often cause harmful discolored green algal blooms (HABs) that pose a safety and health risk to humans and the surrounding regions.W CalCOFI holds 6 observations of it in 1 dataset.R

6
observations
421
records
1
datasets

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:599664")