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Etymology: Chro.o.coc’cus. N.L. masc. n. coccus, grain; N.L. masc. n. Chroococcus, a colored coccus
Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Chroococc-), khro-o-KOK-kus
Type species: Chroococcus rufescens Nägeli 1849
Valid publication: Nägeli C. Gattungen einzelliger Algen, physiologisch und systematisch bearbeitet. Neue Denkschriften der Allg. Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 1849; 10:1-139.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Taxonomic status: correct name
| Name | Kind |
|---|---|
| Rhodococcus Hansgirg 1884 | heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) |
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 102
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 120
Total number of child taxa: 127
| Name | Nomenclatural status | Taxonomic status |
|---|---|---|
| Chroococcus aeruginosus Gardner 1927 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus alpinus Schmidle 1899 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus aphanocapsoides Skuja 1964 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | synonym |
| Chroococcus atrochalybeus Hansgirg 1892 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus atrovirens (Corda 1829) Hansgirg 1885 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus aurantiacus Bernard 1908 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus aurantiofuscus (Kützing 1845) Rabenhorst 1865 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus aurantius (Agardh 1824) Wille 1919 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus aureoviridis Rabenhorst 1863 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus aureus (Kützing 1846) Rabenhorst 1863 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus bataviae van Oye 1922 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| "Chroococcus batavus" Joosten 2006 | not validly published | preferred name |
| Chroococcus bernardii van Oye 1922 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus bituminosus (Bory 1823) Hansgirg 1885 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus brunneus (Kützing 1845) Rabenhorst 1865 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| "Chroococcus calcicola" Anand 1936 | not validly published | synonym |
| Chroococcus calcicola Anand 1937 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus caldariorum (Hansgirg 1884) Hansgirg 1885 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus catenatus Komárek and Novelo 1994 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus chalybeus (Kützing 1846) Rabenhorst 1863 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus chnaumaticus (Kützing 1846) Rabenhorst 1865 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus cinnamomeus (Meneghini 1842) Rabenhorst 1863 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus cohaerens (Brébisson 1842) Nägeli 1849 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus consociatus Hariot 1892 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus constrictus Gardner 1927 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus crassus (Kützing 1846) Nägeli 1849 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus crepidinum (Thuret 1854) Hansgirg 1887 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | synonym |
| Chroococcus cronbergae Komárek and Novelo 1994 | inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code]) | misspelling |
| Chroococcus cronbergiae corrig. Komárek and Novelo 1994 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus cubicus Gardner 1927 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus cumulatus Bachmann 1921 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus debegenicus Cholnoky 1954 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus decorticans Braun 1850 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | synonym |
| Chroococcus deltoides Komárek and Novelo 1994 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus dimidiatus (Kützing 1834) Nägeli 1849 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus dispersus (Keissler 1902) Lemmermann 1904 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus distans (Smith 1916) Komárková-Legnerová and Cronberg 1994 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus endophyticus Copeland 1936 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus epiphyticus Jao 1964 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus ercegovicii Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus fuligineus (Lenormand 1846) Rabenhorst 1865 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus fuscescens (Kützing 1846) Richter 1897 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus fuscoater (Kützing 1843) Rabenhorst 1865 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus fuscoviolaceus Hansgirg 1890 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | synonym |
| Chroococcus giganteus West 1892 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus goetzei Schmidle 1901 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus gomontii Nygaard 1926 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus granulosus Zeller 1873 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus hansgirgi Schmidle 1900 | inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code]) | misspelling |
| Chroococcus hansgirgii corrig. Schmidle 1900 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus heanogloios Gardner 1927 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus helveticus Nägeli 1849 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus indicus Bernard 1908 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name, later homonym | synonym |
| Chroococcus indicus Zeller 1873 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus insignis Schmidle 1897 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus irregularis Huber-Pestalozzi 1929 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus julianus (Meneghini 1841) Nägeli 1849 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus kerguelensis Wille 1924 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus limneticus Lemmermann 1898 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | synonym |
| Chroococcus lithophilus Ercegović 1925 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus macrococcus (Kützing 1843) Rabenhorst 1863 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus major Komárek and Komárkova-Legnerová 2007 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus mediocris Gardner 1927 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus membraninus (Meneghini 1842) Nägeli 1849 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus microscopicus Komárková-Legnerová and Cronberg 1994 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | synonym |
| Chroococcus minimus (Keissler 1901) Lemmermann 1904 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus minor (Kützing 1845) Nägeli 1849 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | synonym |
| Chroococcus minutissimus Gardner 1927 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus minutus (Kützing 1843) Nägeli 1849 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | synonym |
| Chroococcus mipitanensis (Wołoszyńska 1912) Geitler 1925 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus molischii Schiller 1956 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| "Chroococcus montanus" Hansgirg 1887 | not validly published | preferred name |
| Chroococcus mougeotiae Cholnoky 1952 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus multicoloratus Wood 1869 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus muralis Gardner 1927 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus mutisii González Guerrero 1947 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus nanoplankticus Azevedo et al. 2003 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus niger Starmach 1934 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | synonym |
| Chroococcus occidentalis (Gardner 1927) Komárek and Komárkova-Legnerová 2007 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus pallidus Nägeli 1849 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus parallelepipedon Schmidle 1901 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | synonym |
| Chroococcus planctonicus Bethge 1935 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus polyedriformis Schmidle 1901 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus prescottii Drouet and Daily 1942 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus pulcherrimus Welsh 1965 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus purpureus Snow 1903 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus pyriformis Bennett 1888 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus quaternarius Zalessky 1926 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus raspaigellae Hauck 1888 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | synonym |
| Chroococcus rechingeri Wille 1914 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus refractus Wood 1869 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus roseus (Meneghini 1842) Wille 1925 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus rubiginosus (Suringar 1857) Rabenhorst 1865 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus rubrapunctus Wolle 1877 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus rufescens Nägeli 1849 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus sabulosus (Meneghini 1846) Hansgirg 1885 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus sarcinoides Huber-Pestalozzi 1929 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name | in need of a replacement |
| "Chroococcus sarcinoides" Wislouch 1924 | not validly published | preferred name |
| Chroococcus scherffelianus Kol 1928 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus schizodermaticus West 1892 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus siderochlamys Skuja 1948 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus simmeri Schmidle 1898 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus smaragdinus Hauck 1888 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | synonym |
| Chroococcus solitarius Eichler 1896 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus sonorensis Drouet and Daily 1942 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus spelaeus Ercegović 1925 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus splendidus Jao 1944 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus submarinus (Hansgirg 1892) Kovácik 1988 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus subnudus (Hansgirg 1892) Cronberg and Komárek 1994 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus subsphaericus corrig. Gardner 1927 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus subsphericus Gardner 1927 | inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code]) | misspelling |
| Chroococcus subtilissimus Skuja 1937 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus subviolaceus (Wille 1913) Gama et al. 2014 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus tenacoides Copeland 1936 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus tenax (Kirchner 1878) Hieronymus 1892 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus thermalis (Meneghini 1837) Nägeli 1849 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus thermophilus Wood 1868 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | synonym |
| Chroococcus turgidus (Kützing 1846) Nägeli 1849 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | synonym |
| Chroococcus turicensis (Nägeli 1849) Hansgirg 1887 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | synonym |
| Chroococcus vacuolatus Skuja 1939 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus varius Braun 1876 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus verrucosus Krieger 1930 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus violaceus Rabenhorst 1865 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus virescens Hantzsch 1865 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | synonym |
| Chroococcus westii Petersen 1923 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus yellowstonensis Copeland 1936 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
| Chroococcus zopfii Hansgirg 1885 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) | correct name |
Parent taxon: Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863
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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Record number: 6369