Cyanobium R.Rippka & G.Cohen-Bazire, 1983

Holotype species: Cyanobium gracile Rippka & Cohen-Bazire

Original publication and holotype designation: Rippka, R. & Cohen-Bazire, G. (1983). The Cyanobacteriales: a legitimate order based on the type strain Cyanobacterium stanieri?. Annales de l'Institut Pasteur, Microbiologie 134B: 21-36.

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Description: Cells solitary or in twos after division, not in colonies, small, usually about 1-2(4) µm long and about 1(-3) µm wide, without gelatinous envelopes, oval, ellipsoid to shortly rod-shaped, usually with well visible chromatoplasma. Thylakoids are arranged panetally along the cell walls. Obligatory photoautotroph. Emended description (Komárek et al., 2020:183).

Information contributed by: J. Komárek. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-03-02 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as neuter.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Komárek, J., Johansen, J.R., Smarda, J. & Strunecky, O. (2020). Phylogeny and taxonomy of Synechococcus-like cyanobacteria. Fottea 20(2): 171-191, 6 figures.

Comments: GC-content of the DNA = approx. 66-71 mol. percent. Without filamentous involution cells.

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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 02 March 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 April 2024