Higher Classification: > Kingdom Bacteria > Subkingdom Gracilicutes > Phylum Cyanobacteria > Class Cyanophyceae > Subclass Oscillatoriophycideae > Order Chroococcales > Family Chroococcaceae

Chroococcus Nägeli, 1849

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Chroococcus aphanocapsoides Skuja, 1964
Chroococcus cohaerens (Brébisson) Nägeli, 1849
Chroococcus cumulatus Bachmann, 1921
Chroococcus dispersus (Keissler) Lemmermann, 1904
Chroococcus distans (G.M.Smith) Komárková-Legnerová & Cronberg, 1993
Chroococcus microscopicus J.Komárková-Legnerová & G.Cronberg, 1994
Chroococcus minimus (Keissler) Lemmermann, 1904
Chroococcus minor (Kützing) Nägeli, 1849
Chroococcus minutus (Kützing) Nägeli, 1849
Chroococcus turgidus (Kützing) Nägeli, 1849

Literature

basis of record	Silva, C., P. Basson & R. Moe (1996). Catalogue of the Benthic Marine Algae of the Indian Ocean. Volume 79 of University of California Publications in Botany (ISBN 0-520-09810-2).
additional source	Algaebase
additional source	ITIS database
additional source	Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings No. 95: 210 pp.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

External Links

GenBank
GBIF

Citation

Guiry, Michael D. (2014). Chroococcus Nägeli, 1849. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2014). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146565