Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.713

Name

Prochlorothrix Burger-Wiersma et al. 1989 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 Record	Name Record
family	Leptolyngbyaceae Komárek et al. 2014

Members

species	Prochlorothrix hollandica Burger-Wiersma et al. 1989 emend. 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 Leptolyngbyaceae Komárek et al. 2014
genus Prochlorothrix Burger-Wiersma et al. 1989 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 Prochlorothrix Burger-Wiersma et al. 1989 emend. McNeill et al. 2006. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.713.

Source File

10.1601/tx.713.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 2, 2018.

References

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.
Burger-Wiersma T, Stal LJ, Mur LR. Prochlorothrix hollandica gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous oxygenic photoautotrophic procaryote containing chlorophylls a and b: Assignment to Prochlororales Florenzano, Balloni, and Materassi 1986, with emendation of the ordinal description. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1989; 39:250-257. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-39-3-250.