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Kingdom · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Bacteria

bacteria

WoRMS 6ITIS 202420key worms:6
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2026-08-05: itis_id 202420 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Matthew Crook · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Desulfobacter postgatei

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).

Scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli, grown in culture and adhered to a cover slip. Credit: NIAID
Photo · NIAID · Public domain · commons

Bacteria are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms.W CalCOFI holds 28,813 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1996 and 2023, across 3 taxa under it.R

28,813
observations
29,200
records
1996–2023
years
2
datasets
1
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:6")