Name: "Chroogloeocystis" Brown et al. 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Chro.o.gloe.o.cys’tis. Gr. masc. adj. chlôros, green; Gr. fem. n. gloia, glue; Gr. fem. n. kystis, a bag; N.L. fem. n. Chroogloeocystis, a green bag of glue

Gender: feminine (stem: Chroogloeocyst-)

Type species: "Chroogloeocystis siderophila" Brown et al. 2005

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Brown II, Mummey D, Cooksey KE. A novel cyanobacterium exhibiting an elevated tolerance for iron. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2005; 52:307-314.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Chroogloeocyctis".
  • 🧍 Full authorship: Brown, Mummey and Cooksey 2005.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Chroogloeocystis siderophila" Brown et al. 2005	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Chroococcidiopsidaceae Geitler ex Büdel et al. 2012

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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