Cyanobacteria

See also: cyanobacteria

TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

cyano- +‎ Bacteria

Proper nounEdit

Cyanobacteria

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

SynonymsEdit

(class): Cyanophyta - phylum^[1]

HypernymsEdit

(class): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Negibacteria - subkingdom^[1]

HyponymsEdit

(class): Cyanophyceae, Gloeobacteria - classes^[1]

See alsoEdit

Chroobacteria
Hormogoneae

ReferencesEdit

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

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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