Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.650
Name
 Chisholm et al. 2001 emend. McNeill et al. 2006
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
(ex Lewin 1977) Florenzano et al. 1986
Members
Chisholm et al. 1992
None 2015
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  Woese et al. 1985 emend. McNeill et al. 2006 non Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 2006
  Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
  Gibbons and Murray 1978
  (ex Lewin 1977) Florenzano et al. 1986
  (ex Lewin 1977) Florenzano et al. 1986
  Chisholm et al. 2001 emend. McNeill 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 genus Prochlorococcus Chisholm et al. 2001 emend. McNeill et al. 2006. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.650.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on March 2, 2018.

References

  1. Herdman M, Castenholz RW, Iteman I, Waterbury JB, Rippka R. Subsection I. (Formerly Chroococcales Wettstein 1924, emend. Rippka, Deruelles, Waterbury, Herdman and Stanier 1979). In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 493-514.
  2. Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  3. Chisholm SW, Frankel SL, Goericke R, Olson RJ, Palenik B, Waterbury JB, Westjohnsrud L, Zettler ER. Prochlorococcus marinus nov. gen. nov. sp.: an oxyphototrophic marine prokaryote containing divinyl chlorophyll a and b. Arch Microbiol 1992; 157:297-300. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00245165.
  4. No reference is available 2015