Cyanobacterium (genus)

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Cyanobacterium
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Cyanobacteriota
Class: Cyanophyceae
Order: Chroococcales
Family: Cyanobacteriaceae
Komárek et al. 2014 [1]
Genus: Cyanobacterium
Rippka & Cohen-Bazire 1983 [validated 2022]
Species
  • Cyanobacterium stanieri
  • "Cyanobacterium aponinum"

Cyanobacterium is a genus of cyanobacteria. Unusual for cyanobacteria, it is published under the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (with a living-culture type specimen). It became a validly published name in 2022. [2]

It contains one validly-published species, the type species Cyanobacterium stanieri. [2] There is an effectively (but not validly) published "Cyanobacterium aponinum" Moro et al. 2007. [3]

GTDB splits Cyanobacterium stanieri into two species-sized clusters and reports three more unnamed species clusters in its understanding of Cyanobacterium. The "Cyanobacterium aponinum PCC 10605" RefSeq genome GCF_000317675.1 is assigned to different genus with a placeholder name, PCC-10605, under GTDB's version of Cyanobacteriaceae. [4] GTDB's version of the Cyanobacteriaceae also includes Geminocystis and two more placeholder genera. [5]

References

  1. Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR (2014). "Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach" (PDF). Preslia. 86: 295–335.
  2. 1 2 Oren, Aharon; Mareš, Jan; Rippka†, Rosmarie (21 October 2022). "Validation of the names Cyanobacterium and Cyanobacterium stanieri, and proposal of Cyanobacteriota phyl. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 72 (10). doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.005528 . PMID   36251754.
  3. "Species: Cyanobacterium aponinum". lpsn.dsmz.de.
  4. "GTDB - GCF_000317675.1 PCC-10605 sp000317675". gtdb.ecogenomic.org.
  5. "GTDB - Tree at s__Geminocystis herdmanii". gtdb.ecogenomic.org.