Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.659

Name

Synechocystis 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 Record	Name Record
family	Merismopediaceae None 2015

Members

species	Synechocystis sp. McNeill et al. 2006

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus 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
class Cyanobacteria (Stanier 1973) Woese et al. 2006 emend. McNeill et al. 2006 non Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 1985
subclass Synechococcophycidae None 2015
order Synechococcales Komárek et al. 2014
family Merismopediaceae None 2015
genus Synechocystis 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 Synechocystis McNeill et al. 2006. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.659.

Source File

10.1601/tx.659.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 23, 2017.

References

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.
Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
McNeill J, Barrie FR, Burdet HM, Demoulin V, Hawksworth DL, Marhold K, Nicolson DH, Prado J, Silva PC, Skog JE, Wiersema JH, Turland NJ. International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Vienna Code) adopted by the Seventeenth International Botanical Congress Vienna, Austria, July 2005. In: McNeill J, Barrie FR, Burdet HM, Demoulin V, Hawksworth DL, Marhold K, Nicolson DH, Prado J, Silva PC, Skog JE, Wiersema JH, Turland NJ (eds), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Vienna Code), A.R.G. Ganter, Königstein, 2007, p. 1-568.