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Genus Synechocystis
Name: Synechocystis Sauvageau 1892
Etymology: Sy.ne.cho.cys’tis. sunekhos, continu, dont les parties se tiennent; N.L. fem. n. Synechocystis, a bladder holding together
Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Synechocyst-), sy-ne-kho-KYS-tis
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
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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.
- 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Merismopediaceae Elenkin 1933. 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: "Symechocystis"; "Symechoeystis"; "Syncchocystis"; "Syncehocyslis"; "Syncehocystis"; "Synechdcystis"; "Synechocgslix"; "Synechocgstis"; "Synechocyatis"; "Synechocysfis"; "Synechocyslis"; "Synechocystia"; "Synechocystidis"; "Synechoeyslis"; "Synechoeystis"; "Synechorystis"; "Synechovystis"; "Synechozystis"; "Syneclwcystis"; "Syneclzocystis"; "Syneehncystis"; "Syneehocystis"; "Synenchocystis"; "Synerhoeystis"; "Syneshocystis"; "Sypechocystis"; "Syruichocystis".
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🧍 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.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 20
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 21
Total number of child taxa: 23
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status "Synechocystis algini" Saad et al. 2023 not validly published preferred name Synechocystis aquatilis Sauvageau 1892 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Synechocystis bourrellyi Komárek 1976 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Synechocystis consortia Norris 1967 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Synechocystis crassa Woronichin 1929 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name "Synechocystis didemni" Lewin 1975 not validly published 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 limnetica Popovskaya 1968 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 minima Bourrelly 1953 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) synonym Synechocystis minuscula Woronichin 1926 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Synechocystis pevalekii Ercegović 1925 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Synechocystis planctonica Proshkina-Lavrenko 1951 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Synechocystis primigenia Gardner 1927 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Synechocystis raspaigellae (Hauck 1888) Lafargue and Duclaux 1979 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Synechocystis salina Wislouch 1924 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Synechocystis sallensis Skuja 1930 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Synechocystis septentrionalis Skuja 1956 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Synechocystis spirogyrae Skvortzov 1946 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
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Parent taxon: Microcystaceae Elenkin 1933
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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Record number: 6297
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