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Prochlorococcus

WoRMS 345515ITIS 610076key worms:345515
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2026-09-12: itis_id 610076 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).

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

Prochlorococcus is a genus of very small (0.6 μm) marine cyanobacteria with an unusual pigmentation. These bacteria belong to the photosynthetic picoplankton and are probably the most abundant photosynthetic organism on Earth.W CalCOFI holds 12,789 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2004 and 2023.R

12,789
observations
12,789
records
12,789
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 12,789 obs · 12,789 events · 2004–2023
    name used: Prochlorococcus · code prochlorococcus

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:345515%22