Name: Synechococcus Nägeli 1849

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Synechococcus

Gender: masculine

Type species: Synechococcus elongatus Nägeli 1849

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Synechococcaceae Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995. Publication: Komárek J, Anagnostidis K. Nomenclatural novelties in chroococcalean cyanoprokaryotes. Preslia, Praha 1995; 67:15-23.
  • Nomenclatural type of the order "Synechococcales" Hoffmann et al. 2005. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • Nomenclatural type of the subclass "Synechococcophycidae" Hoffmann et al. 2005. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kastovsky J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) - state in 2004. Algological Studies 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 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.
  • Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Synechococcus aeruginosus" Naegeli 1849	not validly published
    "Candidatus Synechococcus calcipolaris" Ragon et al. 2014	not validly published
    Synechococcus cedrorum Sauvageau 1892	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Synechococcus elongatus Nägeli 1849	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    "Candidatus Synechococcus feldmannii" Burgsdorf et al. 2019	not validly published
    "Candidatus Synechococcus lacustris" Cabello-Yeves et al. 2017	not validly published
    Synechococcus lividus Copeland 1936	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    "Candidatus Synechococcus spongiarum" Usher et al. 2004	not validly published
    "Synechococcus vulcanus" Copeland 1936	not validly published

Parent taxon: Synechococcaceae Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995

Assigned by: Komárek J, Anagnostidis K. Nomenclatural novelties in chroococcalean cyanoprokaryotes. Preslia, Praha 1995; 67:15-23.

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