Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.624

Name

Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 1985 emend. McNeill et al. 2006 non Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 2006

Taxonomic Rank

phylum

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
domain	Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990

Members

class	Cyanobacteria (Stanier 1973) Woese et al. 2006 emend. McNeill et al. 2006 non Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 1985
class	Melainabacteria Di Rienzi et al. 2013
class	Oxyphotobacteria (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Murray 1988
class	Photobacteria Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
class	Sericytochromatia Soo et al. 2017

Type Status

Names of taxa above the rank of class or below the rank of subspecies are not covered by the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes and therefore cannot serve as nomenclatural types.

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this phylum within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 1985 emend. McNeill et al. 2006 non Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 2006

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the phylum Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 1985 emend. McNeill et al. 2006 non Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 2006. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.624.

Source File

10.1601/tx.624.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 8, 2019.

References

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