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Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Nostocales

WoRMS 146547ITIS 861key worms:146547
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2026-08-05: itis_id 861 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Matthew Crook · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Nostoc commune

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 Nostocales
Photo · zookanthos · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The Nostocales are an order of cyanobacteria containing most of its species. It includes filamentous forms, both simple or branched, and both those occurring as single strands or multiple strands within a sheath.W CalCOFI holds 22 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022.R

22
observations
409
records
1996–2022
years
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 v2026.10.14, 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:146547")