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

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 NN. [Title pending]. Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 1925; 41:231.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 5

• 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 pevalekii Ercegovic 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Synechocystis salina Wislouch 1924	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Synechocystis trididemni Lafargue and Duclaux 1979	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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