Higher Classification: > Kingdom Bacteria > Subkingdom Negibacteria > Phylum Cyanobacteria > Class Cyanophyceae > Subclass Oscillatoriophycidae > Order Chroococcales > Family Chroococcaceae > Genus Chroococcus

Chroococcus minutus (Kützing) Nägeli, 1849

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Chroococcus*	Nägeli, 1849	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Protococcus minutus*	Kützing, 1843	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Louis, A.; Petes, J. (1979). Fluctuations écologiques et algologiques dans les estuaires belges (Oostende, Blankenberge et Nieuwpoort): 1. Données de base [Ecological and algological fluctuations in the Belgian estuaries (Oostende, Blankenberge and Nieuwpoort): 1. Basic data]. Studia Algologica Lovaniensia, 7. Story-Scientia: Louvain, Belgium. XXXVI, 355 pp.
additional source	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
additional source	Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings. No. 95: 210 pp.
additional source	Silva, P. C.; Basson, P. W.; Moe, R. L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany. 79: 1-1259.
additional source	West W, West G.S. (1911). Freshwater algae. in Murray J. British Antarctic Expedition. Reports of the Scientific Investigations. Biology. Vol 1. 1907-09: 263-268.
additional source	Broady, P.A. (1979). The terrestrial algae of Signy Island, South Orkney Islands. British Antarctic Survey Report. 98:134 pp.
ecology source	Starmach, K. (1995). Freshwater algae of the Thala Hills oasis (Enderby Land, East Antarctic). Polish Polar Research. 16(3/4): 113-148.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

Citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Chroococcus minutus (Kützing) Nägeli, 1849. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146567