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Synechococcus

WoRMS 160572ITIS 773key worms:160572
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2026-09-12: itis_id 773 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Benjamin Liebeskind · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Cyanobacteriota

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).

Synechococcus PCC 7002 in DIC microscopy. Imaging was performed with the Olympus BX61 microscope and a UPlanSApo 100× NA 1.40 oil immersion objective (Olympus). Pictures were acquired at room temperat
Photo · Masur · Public domain · commons

Synechococcus is a unicellular cyanobacterium that is very widespread in the marine environment. Its size varies from 0.8 to 1.5 μm.W CalCOFI holds 16,002 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2004 and 2023.R

16,002
observations
16,002
records
16,002
sampling events
2004–2023
years
1
datasets

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Picoplankton & Bacteria 16,002 obs · 16,002 events · 2004–2023
    name used: Synechococcus · code synechococcus

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Picoplankton & Bacteria table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/cce-lter_picoplankton-bacteria.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:160572%22