Higher Classification: > Kingdom Bacteria > Subkingdom Negibacteria > Phylum Cyanobacteria > Class Cyanophyceae > Subclass Oscillatoriophycidae > 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
*Protococcus turgidus*	Kützing, 1846	synonym
*Trochiscia dimidiata*	Kützing, 1834	synonym

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	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
additional source	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	Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings. No. 95: 210 pp.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 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 turgidus (Kützing) 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:146566