Name: "Chroococcophyceae" Starmach 1966

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Chro.o.coc.co.phy’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Chroococcophyceae, the Chroococcus class

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: k^hro-o-kok-ko-P^HY-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Chroococcus Nägeli 1849

Original publication: Starmach K. Flora slodkowodna Polski [Freshwater flora of Poland]. Volume 2. Cyanophyta-Sinice. Glaucophyta-Glaukofity. PAN, Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa, 1966.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Chroococcophyceae Hollerbach et al. 1953

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Oxyphotobacteria (ex Gibbons and Murray 1978) Murray 1988	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    Chamaesiphonophyceae Hollerbach et al. 1953	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Chroococcophyceae Hollerbach et al. 1953	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Cyanophyceae Schaffner 1909	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name, later homonym
    "Prochlorophyceae" Lewin 1977	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Cyanophycoidea Walton 1931	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), descriptive name
    "Chroococcophyceae" Proshkina-Lavrenko and Makarova 1968	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Cyanophyceae Hauck 1885	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), descriptive name
    Cyanophyceae Bennett and Murray 1889	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name, later homonym
    "Chroococcophyceae" Wartenberg 1972	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Nostocophyceae Christensen 1978	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Gloeobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    Chroobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    Chamaesiphonophyceae Starmach 1966	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name
    Hormogoneae Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name, later homonym
    "Pleurocapsophyceae" Starmach 1966	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🚃 The type genus of this class has alternatively been placed in the class "Cyanobacteria". Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166. 🇺🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Cbroococcophyceae"; "Chmococcophyceae"; "Chrooccophyceae"; "Chroocophyceae".
  • 🧍 Considered not validly published. No Latin description. Publication: McNeill J, Barrie FR, Buck WR, Demoulin V, Greuter W, Hawksworth DL, Herendeen PS, Knapp S, Marhold K, Prado J, et al. International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants (Melbourne Code). Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein, 2012.
  • 🧍 Later isonym of Chroococcophyceae Hollerbach et al. 1953 under the assumption that the original spelling Chroococceae needs to be corrected to Chroococcophyceae. Publication: Hollerbach MM, Kosinskaya EK, Polyansky VI. Sinezelenye vodorosli. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Opredelitel presnovodnykh vodoroslej SSSR, Sovetskaya Nauka, Moskva, 1953, p. 652.

Parent taxon: Cyanobacteriota Oren et al. 2022

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Aleksovski B, Krstić S, Guiry MD. The names of phyla and classes of blue-green algae (cyanobacteria, cyanophytes) and a typified name: Cyanobacteriophyta Oren, Mareš et Rippka. Fottea 2025; 25:212-217. 🇮🇪

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