Order "Cyanobacteriales"

Name: "Cyanobacteriales" (Stanier 1973) Gibbons and Murray 1978

Category, proposed as: order, ord. nov.

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ky-a-no-bak-te-ri-A-les, feminine

Original publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals concerning the higher taxa of bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the subclass "Oxyphotobacteriae" Gibbons and Murray 1978. Publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals concerning the higher taxa of bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
  • 🧕 Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned this order to the subclass "Oxyphotobacteriae" Gibbons and Murray 1978. Publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
  • 🧒 Duxbury et al. (2025) assigned the family "Candidatus Fluctiformaceae" Duxbury et al. 2025 to this order. Publication: Duxbury SJN, Raguideau S, Cremin K, Richards L, Medvecky M, Rosko J, Coates M, Randall K, Chen J, Quince C, et al. Niche formation and metabolic interactions contribute to stable diversity in a spatially structured cyanobacterial community. ISME J 2025; 19:0. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Rippka and Cohen-Bazire (1983) assigned the genus "Cyanobacterium" Rippka and Cohen-Bazire 1983 to this order. Publication: Rippka R, Cohen-Bazire G. The cyanobacteriales: a legitimate order based on the type strain Cyanobacterium stanieri? Ann Microbiol (Paris) 1983; 134B:21-36. 🇫🇷
  • 🧒 Salazar et al. (2020) assigned the family "Limnotrichaceae" Salazar et al. 2020 to this order. Publication: Salazar VW, Tschoeke DA, Swings J, Cosenza CA, Mattoso M, Thompson CC, Thompson FL. A new genomic taxonomy system for the Synechococcus collective. Environ Microbiol 2020; 22:4557-4570. 🇧🇷
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Cganobacteriales".
  • 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of "Cyanobacteriales" Rippka and Cohen-Bazire 1983.
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
  • 🧍 This name was mentioned in a Request for an Opinion. Publication: Goker M. Solving the remaining problems with names of classes. Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5605. 🇩🇪
  • 🧍 This name was subject to a Request for an Opinion. Publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Validation of Cyanobacteriales Stanier in Gibbons and Murray 1978 as a New Order of the Kingdom Procaryotae Murray 1968, and of the Use of Neuter Plural Endings for Photobacteria and Scotobacteria classes nov. Gibbons and Murray 1978. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1978; 28:332-333.

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Record number: 769