Name: Synechococcaceae Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Syn.e.cho.coc.ca’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Synechococcaceae, the Synechococcus family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Synechococcus Nägeli 1849

Valid publication: Komárek J, Anagnostidis K. Nomenclatural novelties in chroococcalean cyanoprokaryotes. Preslia, Praha 1995; 67:15-23.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Cyanobiaceae" Salazar et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Coutinho et al. (2016) assigned the genus "Prochlorococcus" Chisholm et al. 1992 to this family. Publication: Coutinho F, Tschoeke DA, Thompson F, Thompson C. Comparative genomics of Synechococcus and proposal of the new genus Parasynechococcus. PeerJ 2016; 3:e1522.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus "Prochlorococcus" Chisholm et al. 1992 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Cyanonephron Hickel 1985 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Pannus Hickel 1991 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Cyanocatena Hindák 1975 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Cyanogranis Hindák 1982 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Epigloeosphaera Komárková-Legnerová 1991 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Cyanodictyon Pascher 1914 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Lemmermanniella Geitler 1942 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Aphanothece Nägeli 1849 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Bacularia Borzì 1905 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Wolskyella Claus 1963 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Tubiella Hollerbach 1935 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus "Thermosynechococcus" Katoh et al. 2001 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Rhabdoderma Schmidle and Lauterborn 1900 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Rhabdogloea Schröder 1917 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Cyanothamnos Cronberg 1991 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Rhodostichus Geitler and Pascher 1931 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Komarek and Anagnostidis (1995) assigned the genus Amalia De Toni f. 1934 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Anagnostidis K. Nomenclatural novelties in chroococcalean cyanoprokaryotes. Preslia, Praha 1995; 67:15-23.
  • 🧒 Komarek and Anagnostidis (1995) assigned the genus Raciborskia Wołoszyńska 1918 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Anagnostidis K. Nomenclatural novelties in chroococcalean cyanoprokaryotes. Preslia, Praha 1995; 67:15-23.
  • 🧒 Komarek and Anagnostidis (1999) assigned the genus Catella Ålvik 1934 to this family. Publication: Komarek J, Anagnostidis K. Cyanoprokaryota. 1. Chroococcales. In: Ettl H, Gärtner G, Heynig H, Mollenhauer D (eds), Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Begründet von A. Pascher. Band 19/1., Spektrum, Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg and Berlin, 1999, p. 1-548.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus Lithococcus Ercegović 1925 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus Cyanonephron Hickel 1985 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus Cyanocatena Hindák 1975 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus Cyanogranis Hindák 1982 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus Lithomyxa Howe 1932 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus Epigloeosphaera Komárková-Legnerová 1991 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus Cyanodictyon Pascher 1914 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus Lemmermanniella Geitler 1942 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus Bacularia Borzì 1905 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus "Thermosynechococcus" Katoh et al. 2001 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus Rhabdoderma Schmidle and Lauterborn 1900 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus Rhabdogloea Schröder 1917 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus Cyanothamnos Cronberg 1991 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus Rhodostichus Geitler and Pascher 1931 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus Lemmermannia Elenkin 1933 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🧒 Konstantinou et al. (2021) assigned the genus Aegeococcus Konstantinou and Gkelis 2021 to this family. Publication: Konstantinou D, Voultsiadou E, Panteris E, Gkelis S. Revealing new sponge-associated cyanobacterial diversity: Novel genera and species. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2021; 155:106991.
  • 🧒 Strunecky et al. (2020) assigned the genus Gibliniella Strunecky and Raabová 2020 to this family. Publication: Strunecky O, Raabova L, Bernardova A, Ivanova AP, Semanova A, Crossley J, Kaftan D. Diversity of cyanobacteria at the Alaska North Slope with description of two new genera: Gibliniella and Shackletoniella. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2020; 96:0.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Synechncoccaceae"; "Synechoccocaceae"; "Synechocoecaceae"; "Synechoecoccaceae".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CMS: 2; CBFS: 1; BRNM: 1; PCC: 1; RCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 7
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 9
Total number of child taxa: 15

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Anathece (Cronberg and Komárek 1994) Komárek et al. 2011	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanobium Rippka and Cohen-Bazire 1983	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Inmanicoccus" Walter et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name
    "Lacustricoccus" Salazar et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name
    Lauterbornia Pringsheim 1968	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Maedleria Molinari and Guiry 2021	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nostocopsis Yin and Li 1978	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name, later homonym	in need of a replacement
    Nostocopsis Mädler 1963	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Parasynechococcus Coutinho et al. 2020	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Regnicoccus" Walter et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name
    Spirillopsis Naumann 1921	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Synechococcus" (Nägeli 1849) Elenkin 1923	not validly published	synonym
    Synechococcus Nägeli 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Synechospongium" Salazar et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name
    "Vulcanococcus" Di Cesare et al. 2018	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: "Synechococcales" Hoffmann et al. 2005

Assigned by: Strunecky O, Ivanova AP, Mares J. An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis. J Phycol 2023; 59:12-51.

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