Prochlorococcaceae

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-09-12WoRMS 1653575key worms:1653575

CalCOFI holds 12,789 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2004 and 2023.R

Photo · Luke Thompson from Chisholm Lab and Nikki Watson from Whitehead, MIT, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · 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.

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1653575")

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 6 ranks · Bacteria to Synechococcales

Credits silhouette · photo

Silhouette · Benjamin Liebeskind · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Cyanobacteriota · source
Photo · Luke Thompson from Chisholm Lab and Nikki Watson from Whitehead, MIT, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source

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 ↗