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Etymology: Chro.o.coc’cus. N.L. masc. n. coccus, grain; N.L. masc. n. Chroococcus, a colored coccus
Gender: masculine (stem: Chroococc-)
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: 100
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 118
Total number of child taxa: 125
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 1928 | 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 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" Wislouch 1924 | not validly published | preferred name |
Chroococcus sarcinoides Huber-Pestalozzi 1929 | validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name | in need of a replacement |
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 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