Name: "Synechococcales" Hoffmann et al. 2005

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: Syn.e.cho.coc.ca’les. N.L. fem. pl. n. Synechococcales, the Synechococcus order

Gender: feminine

Type genus: "Synechococcus" (Nägeli 1849) Elenkin 1923

Original publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this order to the subclass "Synechococcophycidae" Hoffmann et al. 2005. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this order to the subclass "Synechococcophycidae" Hoffmann et al. 2005. 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.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the family "Acaryochloridaceae" Miyashita et al. 2003 to this order. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the family Chamaesiphonaceae Borzì 1878 to this order. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the family Merismopediaceae Elenkin 1933 to this order. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Synechococcus Nägeli 1849 to this order. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the family Pseudanabaenaceae Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988 to this order. 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.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the family "Acaryochloridaceae" Miyashita et al. 2003 to this order. 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.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the family Romeriaceae Komárek et al. 2014 to this order. 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.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the family Leptolyngbyaceae Komárek et al. 2014 to this order. 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.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the family Chamaesiphonaceae Borzì 1878 to this order. 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.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the family Merismopediaceae Elenkin 1933 to this order. 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.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the family Coelosphaeriaceae Elenkin 1933 to this order. 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.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the family "Prochloraceae" (ex Lewin 1977) Florenzano et al. 1986 to this order. 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.
  • 🧒 Ludwig et al. (2021) assigned the family "Pseudoanabaenaceae" to this order. Publication: Ludwig W, Viver T, Westram R, Francisco Gago J, Bustos-Caparros E, Knittel K, Amann R, Rossello-Mora R. Release LTP_12_2020, featuring a new ARB alignment and improved 16S rRNA tree for prokaryotic type strains. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126218.
  • 🧒 Mai et al. (2018) assigned the family Oculatellaceae Mai and Johansen 2018 to this order. Publication: Mai T, Johansen JR, Pietrasiak N, Bohunická M, Martin MP. Revision of the Synechococcales (Cyanobacteria) through recognition of four families including Oculatellaceae fam. nov. and Trichocoleaceae fam. nov. and six new genera containing 14 species. Phytotaxa 2018; 365:1-59.
  • 🧒 Mai et al. (2018) assigned the family Trichocoleaceae Mai and Johansen 2018 to this order. Publication: Mai T, Johansen JR, Pietrasiak N, Bohunická M, Martin MP. Revision of the Synechococcales (Cyanobacteria) through recognition of four families including Oculatellaceae fam. nov. and Trichocoleaceae fam. nov. and six new genera containing 14 species. Phytotaxa 2018; 365:1-59.
  • 🧒 Salazar et al. (2020) assigned the family "Cyanobiaceae" 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.
  • 🧒 Soares et al. (2022) assigned the family Petrachlorosaceae Soares et al. 2022 to this order. Publication: Soares F, Trovao J, Ahn AC, Wilmotte A, Cardoso SM, Tiago I, Portugal A. Introducing Petrachlorosaceae fam. nov., Petrachloros gen. nov. and Petrachloros mirabilis sp. nov. (Synechococcales, Cyanobacteria) Isolated from a Portuguese UNESCO monument. J Phycol 2022; 58:219-233.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this order has alternatively been placed in the order Chroococcales corrig. Ardissone 1886. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Symchucoccales"; "Syncechococcales"; "Synechoccales"; "Synechoccocales"; "Synechochoccales"; "Synechococales"; "Syneohocoecales".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: BRY: 4; LEGE: 2; TNS: 2; CMS: 2; CCALA: 2; BRNM: 2; CBFS: 2; FCME: 1; ULC: 1; PCC: 1.
  • 🧍 Considered not validly published. No diagnosis. Publication: McNeill J, Barrie FR, Buck WR, Demoulin V, Greuter W, Hawksworth DL, Herendeen PS, Knapp S, Marhold K, Prado J, et al. International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants (Melbourne Code). Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein, 2012.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 8

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Cyanobiaceae" Salazar et al. 2020	not validly published	synonym
    Heteroleibleiniaceae Komárek et al. 2014	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Petrachloraceae corrig. Soares et al. 2022	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Petrachlorosaceae Soares et al. 2022	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Prochlorococcaceae Komárek and Strunecký 2020	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Schizotrichaceae Elenkin 1949	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Synechococcaceae Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    [Synechococcales, not assigned to family]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis

Parent taxon: Cyanophyceae Bennett and Murray 1889

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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