Prochlorococcus
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2026-09-12: itis_id 610076 via WoRMS external link
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 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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name used: Prochlorococcus · code
prochlorococcus
Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:345515")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:345515'").df()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).
Lineage 7 ranks · Bacteria to Prochlorococcaceae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- 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
- Text · Wikipedia, “Prochlorococcus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1378065289
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
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 ↗