Name: Synechocystis Sauvageau 1892

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: sunekhos, continu, dont les parties se tiennent; N.L. fem. n. Synechocystis

Gender: feminine (stem: Synechocyst-)

Type species: Synechocystis aquatilis Sauvageau 1892

Valid publication: Sauvageau M. Sur les algues d'eau douce recoltées en Algérie pendant le session de la Societé Botanique en 1892. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 1892; 39:104-128.

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

Taxonomic status: 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.
  • 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Microcystaceae Elenkin 1933. 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 in some sources as: "Symechoeystis"; "Syncchocystis"; "Syncehocyslis"; "Syncehocystis"; "Synechdcystis"; "Synechocgslix"; "Synechocgstis"; "Synechocyatis"; "Synechocysfis"; "Synechocyslis"; "Synechoeyslis"; "Synechoeystis"; "Synechorystis"; "Synechovystis"; "Syneclwcystis"; "Syneclzocystis"; "Syneehncystis"; "Syneehocystis"; "Synerhoeystis"; "Syneshocystis"; "Sypechocystis"; "Syruichocystis".
  • Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "SNCS" 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: 10
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 11
Total number of child taxa: 11

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Synechocystis aquatilis Sauvageau 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Synechocystis didemni Lewin 1975	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Synechocystis diplococcus (Pringsheim 1953) Bourrelly 1970	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Synechocystis fuscopigmentosa Kovácik 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Synechocystis maior (Geitler 1933) Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Synechocystis pevalekii Ercegovic 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Synechocystis primigenia Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Synechocystis salina Wislouch 1924	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Synechocystis thermalis Copeland 1936	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Synechocystis trididemni Lafargue and Duclaux 1979	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Synechocystis willei Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Merismopediaceae Elenkin 1933

Assigned by: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.

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