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Cyanobacteria

Phylum

The blue-green bacteria: the only bacterial phylum capable of oxygen-producing photosynthesis, using the same core chemistry that chloroplasts in plants and algae are now known to have descended from. Cyanobacteria are credited with the Great Oxidation Event that filled Earth's early atmosphere with oxygen roughly two and a half billion years ago.

Facts
Disputed
Member Species/Taxa Count
8000 1
Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.
Taxonomic Rank
Phylum / Division 1
Scientific Name
Cyanobacteria 1
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Bacteria, Taxa
Source Catalogue of Life
Sources
1. Catalogue of Life
Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of LifeView the Source
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