Cyanobacteria

phylum of plants / prokaryotes
Taxon taxon Q93315
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Summary

Cyanobacteria is a taxon[1]. Cyanobacteria ranks in the top 0.24% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,312 views/month, #465 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: synonym[3]
  • Taxon rank: phylum[4]
  • Parent taxon: Negibacteria[5], Bacillati[6]
  • Taxon name: Cyanobacteria[7]
  • Subclass of: autotroph[8]
  • Commons category: Cyanobacteriota[9]
  • Start time: -2100000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Cyanobacteria[11]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[14]
  • Taxon common name: sinice[15], cianobakterije[16]
  • LPSN URL: https://lpsn.dsmz.de/phylum/cyanobacteria[17]
  • Gram staining: gram-negative bacteria[18]

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Identifiers

Cyanobacteria's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 67334[19]. Cyanobacteria's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 3223[20]. Cyanobacteria's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 68[21]. Cyanobacteria's ITIS TSN is recorded as 956108[22].

Why It Matters

Cyanobacteria has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Cyanobacteria is known by 189 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . A higher level classification of all living organisms. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . A higher level classification of all living organisms. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . A higher level classification of all living organisms. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [22] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [20] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [15] ↑ . encyklopedia.pwn.pl. encyklopedia.pwn.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [17] ↑ . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fossiilid.info id → 7930
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Fossiilid.info id: 7930, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/81318798|Cyanobacteria (#81318798)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/2828|Fossiillid.info DB]] #m"
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ['y6FTp', '44ogHO', '3GuPJD']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Code of nomenclature → Q693148
    Svkkl authority id → h0004617-sinice
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004617-sinice, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
  4. 18w ago · PieterJanR · 2026-06-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon synonym of → Cyanobacteriota
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Taxon name: Cyanobacteria"
  5. 19w ago · Brya · 2026-06-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → phylum of plants / prokaryotes
    Instance of → taxon, synonym
    Said to be the same as → ['Q25577567', 'Q13012345']
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Instance of: synonym"
  6. 20w ago · Brya · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → ['Q25577567', 'Q13012345']
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Said to be the same as: Cyanobacteriota"
  7. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon synonym of → Cyanobacteriota
    Parent taxon → Negibacteria, Bacillati
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5
    Subclass of → —
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ Yso id: 3324, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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