Name: Cyanobium Rippka and Cohen-Bazire 1983

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Cy.a.no.bi.um. N.L. neut. n. bium; N.L. neut. n. Cyanobium

Gender: neuter (stem: Cyanobi-)

Type species: Cyanobium gracile Rippka and Cohen-Bazire 1983

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Rippka R, Cohen-Bazire G. The cyanobacteriales: a legitimate order based on the type strain Cyanobacterium stanieri? Ann Microbiol (Paris) 1983; 134B:21-36.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Cyanobiaceae" Salazar et al. 2020. Publication: Salazar VW, Tschoeke DA, Swings J, Cosenza CA, Mattoso M, Thompson CC, Thompson FL. A new genomic taxonomy system for the Synechococcus collective. Environ Microbiol 2020; 22:4557-4570.
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to 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.
  • 🧕 Komarek et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the family Prochlorococcaceae Komárek and Strunecký 2020. Publication: Komárek J, Johansen JR, Smarda J, Strunecky O. Phylogeny and taxonomy of Synechococcus-like cyanobacteria. Fottea 2020; 20:171-191.
  • 🧕 Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Prochlorococcaceae Komárek and Strunecký 2020. Publication: 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Cganobium"; "Cyanabium"; "Iyanobium".
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "CYNB" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 12
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 12
Total number of child taxa: 14

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Cyanobium amethystinum (Copeland 1936) Komárek et al. 1999	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanobium bacillare (Butcher 1952) Komárek et al. 1999	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanobium diatomicola (Geitler 1953) Komárek et al. 1999	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanobium eximium (Copeland 1936) Komárek et al. 1999	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanobium gaarderi (Ålvik 1934) Komárek et al. 1999	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanobium gracile Rippka and Cohen-Bazire 1983	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Cyanobium oceanicum" (Hall and Claus 1965) Komárek et al. 1999	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Cyanobium parvum (Migula 1906) Komárek et al. 1999	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanobium plancticum (Drews et al. 1961) Komárek et al. 1999	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanobium roseum (Copeland 1936) Komárek et al. 1999	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanobium rubescens (Chang 1980) Komárek et al. 1999	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Cyanobium usitatum" Cabello-Yeves et al. 2018	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Cyanobium virgarosea (Chang 1981) Komárek et al. 1999	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanobium waterburyi Komárek 1999	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Synechococcaceae Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995

Assigned by: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.

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