Name: "Prochlorales" Lewin 1977

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: Pro.chlo.ra’les. N.L. fem. pl. n. Prochlorales, the Prochloron order

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: pro-k^hlo-RA-les, feminine

Type genus: "Prochloron" Lewin 1977

Original publication: Lewin RA. Prochloron, type genus of the Prochlorophyta. Phycologia 1977; 16:217.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Chroococcales corrig. Ardissone 1886

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Chroococcaceae Bennett and Murray 1889	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling and illegitimate (ICN [Botanical Code])
    Chroococcales Frémy 1930	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name
    Chroococcales corrig. Bennett and Murray 1889	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name
    Chroococcales Schaffner 1922	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name
    "Prochlorales" (ex Lewin 1977) Florenzano et al. 1986	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Cyanobacteriales" Rippka and Cohen-Bazire 1983	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Chroococcoideae Wettstein 1901	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling and illegitimate (ICN [Botanical Code])
    Chroococcoideae Ardissone 1886	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])
    Dermocarpales Geitler 1925	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Pleurocapsales Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    Chroococcales Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    Chroococcales corrig. Ardissone 1886	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Siphononematidea Walton 1931	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])
    Pleurocapsales Geitler 1925	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Chroococcales Geitler 1925	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name
    Siphononematales corrig. Walton 1931	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 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.
  • 🧕 Lewin (1977) assigned this order to the class "Prochlorophyceae" Lewin 1977. Publication: Lewin RA. Prochloron, type genus of the Prochlorophyta. Phycologia 1977; 16:217.
  • 🧒 Lewin (1977) assigned the genus "Prochloron" Lewin 1977 to this order. Publication: Lewin RA. Prochloron, type genus of the Prochlorophyta. Phycologia 1977; 16:217.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Imhoff JF, Madigan MT. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria. Minutes of the Meetings, 28 August 2000, Barcelona, Spain. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2002; 52:2335-2336. 🇩🇪

Parent taxon: Chroococcophyceae Hollerbach et al. 1953

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Hollerbach MM, Kosinskaya EK, Polyansky VI. Sinezelenye vodorosli. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Opredelitel presnovodnykh vodoroslej SSSR, Sovetskaya Nauka, Moskva, 1953, p. 652.

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