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

Chroococcus turgidus (Kützing) Nägeli, 1849

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Chroococcus*	Nägeli, 1849	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Anacystis dimidiata*	(Kützing) Drouet & Daily, 1952	synonym
*Chroococcus dimidiatus*	(Kützing) Nägeli, 1849	synonym

Literature

original description	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.
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	Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings No. 95: 210 pp.
additional source	Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].

Taxon found in 308 publications.

No records found.

Genbank

Link to Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase
WoRMS

External Links

GenBank
Biodiversity Heritage Library (226 publications)
GBIF

Citation

Guiry, Michael D. (2014). Chroococcus turgidus (Kützing) 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:146566