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Bacteria

bacteria

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

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

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.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

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

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
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Matthew Crook · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Desulfobacter postgatei · source
  • Photo · NIAID · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Bacteria” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1373467343
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

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 ↗