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Nostocales

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

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
Photograph of Nostocales
Photo · zookanthos · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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 inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:146547")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.11.05, 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
Lineage 5 ranks · Bacteria to Nostocophycidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.11.05

Cite the release, v2026.11.05; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗