Cyanobacteria

See also: cyanobacteria

Translingual

Etymology

cyano- +‎ Bacteria

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Proper noun

Cyanobacteria

1. The only photosynthetic prokaryotes able to produce oxygen.
   1. A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Bacteria – (formerly within subkingdom Eubacteria) blue-green algae.
   2. A taxonomic class within the phylum Cyanobacteria.

Synonyms

• (class): Cyanophyta - phylum

Hypernyms

• (class): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Negibacteria - subkingdom

Hyponyms

• (class): Cyanophyceae, Gloeobacteria - classes

See also

• Chroobacteria
• Hormogoneae

References

• Cyanobacteria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cyanobacteria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Cyanobacteria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Cyanobacteria classification at List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
• Cyanobacteria placement and circumscription (click icon for description) at AlgaeBase
• Cyanobacteria at the Tree of Life Web Project