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Kingdom · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Chromista

WoRMS 7key worms:7
Silhouette · Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Chlamydomonas

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 Chromista
Photo · InAweofGod'sCreation · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Chromista is a proposed but controversial biological kingdom, refined from the Chromalveolata, consisting of single-celled and multicellular eukaryotic species that share similar features in their photosynthetic organelles (plastids).W CalCOFI holds 27,861 observations of it in 3 datasets between 1951 and 2026, across 297 taxa under it.R

27,861
observations
162,709
records
1951–2026
years
3
datasets
245
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 · 3 taxa

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:7")