Cyanobacteria
Temporal range: (Possible Paleoarchean records)
Microscope image of Cylindrospermum, a filamentous genus of cyanobacteria
Scientific classification
Domain:Bacteria
Kingdom:Bacillati
Phylum:Cyanobacteriota
Oren et al., 20221
Classes 2 3 and genera
• Cyanophyceae
• ” Sericytochromatia ”
• Vampirovibrionophyceae
• † Archaeosphaeroides
• † Collenia
• † Gunflintia
• † Obruchevella
• † Ozarkcollenia
• † Rothpletzella
Synonyms 4
List • Chloroxybacteria Margulis & Schwartz, 1982
• “Cyanobacteria” Woese et al. , 1985 5
• “Cyanophycota” Parker, Schanen & Renner, 1969
• “Cyanophyta” Steinecke, 1931
• “Diploschizophyta” Dillon, 1963
• “Endoschizophyta” Dillon, 1963
• “Exoschizophyta” Dillon, 1963
• Gonidiophyta Schaffner, 1909
• “Phycobacteria” Cavalier-Smith , 1998
• Phycochromaceae Rabenhorst, 1865
• Prochlorobacteria Jeffrey, 1982
• Prochlorophycota Shameel, 2008
• Prochlorophyta Lewin, 1976
• Chroococcophyceae Starmach, 1966
• Chamaesiphonophyceae Starmach, 1966
• Cyanobacteriia
• Cyanophyceae Sachs, 1874
• Cyanophyta Steinecke, 1931
• Hormogoniophyceae Starmach, 1966
• Myxophyceae Wallroth, 1833
• Nostocophyceae Christensen, 1978
• Pleurocapsophyceae Starmach, 1966
• Prochlorophyceae Lewin, 1977
• Scandophyceae Vologdin, 1962
• Phycochromaceae Rabenhorst, 1865
• Oxyphotobacteria Gibbons & Murray, 1978
• Schizophyceae Cohn, 1879

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Footnotes

  1. Oren, Aharon; Mareš, Jan; Rippka†, Rosmarie (2022). “Validation of the names Cyanobacterium and Cyanobacterium stanieri, and proposal of Cyanobacteriota phyl. nov”. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 72 (10): 005528. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.005528. PMID 36251754.

  2. Cyanobacteriota in LPSN; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). “List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ”. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004332.

  3. Soo, Rochelle M.; Hemp, James; Parks, Donovan H.; Fischer, Woodward W.; Hugenholtz, Philip (31 March 2017). “On the origins of oxygenic photosynthesis and aerobic respiration in Cyanobacteria”. Science. 355 (6332): 1436–1440. Bibcode:2017Sci…355.1436S. doi:10.1126/science.aal3794. PMID 28360330.

  4. See note on phylogeny.

  5. Woese, C.R.; Stackebrandt, E.; Macke, T.J.; Fox, G.E. (September 1985). “A Phylogenetic Definition of the Major Eubacterial Taxa”. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 6 (2): 143–151. Bibcode:1985SyApM…6..143W. doi:10.1016/S0723-2020(85)80047-3. PMID 11542017.