Cyanobacteria

Taxonavigation

Prokaryota
Superregnum: Bacteria
Group: Terrabacteria group
Group: Cyanobacteria/Melainabacteria group
Phylum: Cyanobacteria
Classes: Cyanophyceae – Vampirovibriophyceae

Subclasses: Gloeobacterophycidae – Nostocophycidae – Oscillatoriophycidae – Synechococcophycidae

Ordines (overview): Chroococcales – Chroococcidiopsidales – Gloeobacterales – Nostocales – Oscillatoriales – Pleurocapsales – ?Pseudanabaenales – Spirulinales – Synechococcales

Genus (incertae sedis): Lusitaniella

Name

Cyanobacteria Stanier, 1973

Synonyms

Myxophyceae Wallroth, 1833
Phycochromaceae Rabenhorst, 1865
Cyanophyceae (Classis) Sachs, 1874
Schizophyceae Cohn, 1879 (not Rabenhorst, 1847)
Cyanophyta Steinecke, 1931
Oxyphotobacteria Gibbons & Murray, 1978

References

Komárek J. & Hauer T. 2013. CyanoDB.cz - On-line database of cyanobacterial genera. - Word-wide electronic publication, Univ. of South Bohemia & Inst. of Botany AS CR.

Links

Cyanobacteria – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
European Nucleotide Archive
Cyanobacteria in the World Register of Marine Species

Alternative classifications

Geitler (1925)

Geitler, L. 1925. Cyanophyceae. In: Pascher A. (ed.), Die Süsswasser-Flora: Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz, Vol. 12, p. 481, Gustav Fischer Verl., Jena, [1]

Cyanophyceae

Geitler (1932)

Geitler, L. 1932. Cyanophyceae. In: Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamen Flora von Deutschland, Vol. 14, p. 1196, Akad. Verlagsges., Leipzig, [2]

Cyanophyceae

Geitler (1942)

Geitler, L. 1942. Schizophyta: Klasse Schizophyceae. In: Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, Sweite Auflage. (Engler, A. & Prantl, K. Eds) Vol.1b, pp. 1–232. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, [3]

Schizophyceae

Gibbons & Murray (1978)

Gibbons, N. E. & Murray, R. G. E. 1978. Proposals concerning the higher taxa of bacteria. Int J Syst Bacteriol 28: 1–6. (PDF)

Kingdom Procaryotae

Division Gracilicutes
- Class Photobacteria
  - Subclass Oxyphotobacteriae
    - Order Cyanobacteriales
    - Order Prochlorales
  - Subclass Anoxyphotobacteriae
    - Order Rhodospirillales
    - Order Chlorobiales
- Class Scotobacteria
Division Firmacutes
Division Mollicutes

Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology (1989)

From Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 1st ed., vol. 3, 1989. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, [4], [5]

Kingdom Procaryotae

Division I. Gracilicutes
- Class III. Oxyphotobacteria
  - Group I. Cyanobacteria
    - Subsection I. Order Chroococcales [I]
      - Genus Chamaesiphon [I]
      - Genus Gloeobacter [Synechococcus-Group] [II]
      - Genus Gloeothece [Cyanothece-Group, Gloeocapsa-Group, Synechocystis-Group] [III]
    - Subsection II. Order Nostocales [IV]
      - Family Nostocaceae [I]
        Genus Anabaena [I]
        
        Genus Aphanizomenon [II]
        
        Genus Cylindrospermum [IV]
        
        Genus Nodularia [III]
        
        Genus Nostoc [V]
      - Family Scytonemataceae [II]
        Genus Scytonema [I]
      - Family Rivulariaceae [III]
        Genus Calothrix [I]
    - Subsection III. Order Oscillatoriales [III]
      - Genus Arthrospira [II]
      - Genus Crinalium [VII]
      - Genus Lyngbya [IV]
      - Genus Microcoleus [VIII]
      - Genus Oscillatoria [III]
      - Genus Pseudanabaena [V]
      - Genus Spirulina [I]
      - Genus Starria [VI]
    - Subsection IV. Order Pleurocapsales [II]
      - Genus Chroococcidiopsis [Pleurocapsa-Group] [V]
      - Genus Dermocarpa [I]
      - Genus Dermocarpella [III]
      - Genus Mxyosarcina [IV]
      - Genus Xenococcus [II]
    - Subsection V. Order Stigonematales
      - Genus Chlorogloeopsis [I]
      - Genus Fischerella [II]
      - Genus Geitleria
      - Genus Stigonema [III]
  - Group II. Order Prochlorales
    - Family Prochloraceae
      - Genus Prochloron
    - [Other Taxa]
      - Genus "Prochlorothrix"

Holt et al. (1994)

Holt. J. G., and N. R. Krieg. 1994. Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9th ed. The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, Md. (PDF), [6]

"Four major categories of bacteria"

I. Gram-negative Eubacteria that have cell walls
- Group 11. Oxygenic phototrophic bacteria
  - I. The Cyanobacteria
    - Subgroup 1 (= Order Chroococcales)
    - Subgroup 2 (= Order Pleurocapsales)
    - Subgroup 3 (= Order Oscillatoriales)
    - Subgroup 4 (= Order Nostocales)
    - Subgroup 5 (= Order Stigonematales)
  - II. The prochlorophytes (Order Prochlorales)

van den Hoek et al. (1995)

Hoek, C. van den, Mann, D.G. & Jahns, H.M. 1995. Algae An Introduction to Phycology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, [7].

"Algae"

Division Cyanophyta
- Class Cyanophyceae
  - Order Chroococcales (e.g., Cyanothece, Aphanothece, Merismopedia, Chroococcus, Gloeocapsa, Microcystis, Chamaesiphon)
  - Order Pleurocapsales (e.g., Cyanocystis, Pleurocapsa)
  - Order Oscillatoriales (e.g., Oscillatoria, Lyngbya, Microcoleus)
  - Order Nostocales (e.g., Nostoc, Anabaena, Aphanizomenon, Scytonema, Rivularia)
  - Order Stigonematales (e.g., Stigonema)

A. Pascher's Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa (1998–2013)

From Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa (or Freshwater Flora of Central Europe), 2nd ed., Adolf Pascher. Some volumes not published.

[See Algae]

Cyanoprokaryota
- Chroococcales [Bd. 19/1, 1998, von Komárek, [8]]
- Oscillatoriales [Bd. 19/2, 2005, von Komárek & Anagnostidis, [9]]
- Nostocales [Bd. 19/3, 2013, von Komárek & Anagnostidis, [10]]

Hoffmann et al. (2005)

Hoffmann, L., Kaštovský, J. & Komárek, J. 2005. Proposal of cyanobacterial system – 2004. In: Komárek, J. & Anagnostidis, K. Cyanoprokaryota, 2. Teil/2nd Part: Oscillatorialles. In: Büdel, B., Krienitz L., Gärtner G. & Schagerl, M. (ed.), Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa Bd. 19/2. Elsevier/Spektrum, Heidelberg, pp. 657–660, [11]

Cyanoprokaryota

Komárek et al. (2014)

Komárek, J., Kaštovský, J., Mareš, J. & Johansen, J.R. 2014. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 86: 295–335, [12].

Cyanobacteria

References

Gkelis, S., Ourailidis, I., Panou, M. & Pappas, N. 2016. Cyanobacteria of Greece: an annotated checklist. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e10084. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e10084. Reference page.

Vernacular names

беларуская: Цыянабактэрыі
čeština: Sinice
dansk: Cyanobakterier, blågrønalger
English: blue-green algae
eesti: Tsüanobakterid, Tsüanoprokarüoodid, Sinivetikad, Sinikud
français: Cyanobactéries, algues bleues, algues bleu-vert, Cyanophycées
italiano: Cianobatteri
日本語: シアノバクテリア
한국어: 남조세균문(藍藻細菌門)
polski: Sinice
русский: Цианобактерии
српски / srpski: Цијанобактерије
тоҷикӣ: Сианобактерияҳо
Türkçe: Siyanobakteri
中文: 蓝细菌门

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