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

Chroococcus Nägeli, 1849

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Chroococcus cohaerens (Brébisson) Nägeli, 1849
Chroococcus cumulatus Bachmann, 1921
Chroococcus dispersus (Keissler) Lemmermann, 1904
Chroococcus distans (G.M.Smith) Komárková-Legnerová & Cronberg, 1994
Chroococcus helveticus Nägeli, 1849
Chroococcus lithophilus Ercegovic, 1925
Chroococcus minimus (Keissler) Lemmermann, 1904
Chroococcus minor (Kützing) Nägeli, 1849
Chroococcus minutus (Kützing) Nägeli, 1849
Chroococcus rufescens (Kützing) Nägeli, 1849
Chroococcus spelaeus Ercegovic, 1925
Chroococcus subnudus (Hansgirg) G.Cronberg & J.Komárek, 1994
Chroococcus tenax (Kirchner) Hieronymus, 1892
Chroococcus thermalis (Meneghini) Nägeli, 1849
Chroococcus turgidus (Kützing) Nägeli, 1849
Chroococcus turicensis (Nägeli) Hansgirg, 1887
Chroococcus varius A.Braun, 1876
Chroococcus westii J.B.Petersen, 1923

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Japanese: クロオコックス属

Literature

basis of record

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

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

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.

Genbank

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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 Nägeli, 1849. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146565

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Importance

no data

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Last modified

2012-07-04 by Michael D. Guiry

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