Etymology:
Pro.chlo.ro.coc.cus. Gr. prep.pro, before, primitive; Gr. masc. adj.chlôros, green; Gr. masc. n.kokkos, grain or kernel; N.L. masc. n.Prochlorococcus, primitive green kernel (cell)
Original publication:
Chisholm SW, Frankel SL, Goericke R, Olson RJ, Palenik B, Waterbury JB, West-Johnsrud L, Zettler ER. Prochlorococcus marinus nov. gen. nov. sp.: an oxyphototrophic marine prokaryote containing divinyl chlorophyll a and b. Arch. Microbiol. 1992; 157:297-300.
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Validation list no. 79. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:263-265.
Nomenclatural status:
not validly published
Taxonomic status:
preferred name (not correct name)
Notes:
🧕 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.
🧕 Coutinho et al. (2016) assigned this genus to the family Synechococcaceae Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995.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 this genus to the family Synechococcaceae Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995.Publication:
Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Prochloraceae Lewin 1977.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: "Procblorococcus"; "Prochloroccoccus"; "Prochloroccocus"; "Prochlorocococcus"; "Prochlorocossus"; "Prochorococcus".
🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.Publication:
Imhoff JF, Wilmotte A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Phototrophic Bacteria: Minutes of the closed online Meeting from 9-27 August 2021. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5212.
🧍 Full authorship: Chisholm, Frankel, Goericke, Olson, Palenik, Waterbury, West-Johnsrud and Zettler 1992.
🧍 Regarded as not validly published. Prochlorococcus Chisholm et al. 2001 is not validly published under the ICNP because the type species is not validly published under the ICNP.Publication:
Oren A, Arahal DR, Goker M, Moore ERB, Rossello-Mora R, Sutcliffe IC. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2022 Revision). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5585.
🧍 See also Moldovan and Gelfand (2018).Publication:
Moldovan MA, Gelfand MS. Pangenomic Definition of Prokaryotic Species and the Phylogenetic Structure of Prochlorococcus spp. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:428.
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