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Taxon: Class "Cyanobacteria" "Stanier 1974" nom. inval. (prokaryote)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation "R.Y. Stanier, in R.E. Buchanan & N.E. Gibbons, eds., 1974", nom. inval.
Original name & spelling Stanier, R.Y. 1974. In R.E. Buchanan & N.E. Gibbons (eds.), Bergey's Man. Determ. Bacteriol. (ed. 8): 22. [division, nom. vernac.].
Unavailable subsequent rank (orig. spell.) Stanier, R.Y. & Cohen-Bazire, G. 1977. Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 31: 227 ("The only logical taxonomic treatment of the cyanobacteria is to place them in the superkingdom Prokaryotae, as a division, class, or order of bacteria. ... Cyanobacterial nomenclature, hitherto subject to the rules of the Botanical Code, should in this event come under the rules of the Bacteriological Code.").
Subsequent rank

Attributes

Effectively, but not validly, published name (nom. inval.) [ICNP, 2019: Rule 25, App. 7 (IJSEM)] Ref: G.M. Garrity et al. 2007. Taxon. Outl. Bacteria Archaea (v. 7.7, pt. 2): 43.

Synonyms

Accepted nameCyanoprokaryota (Class) Komárek & Golubić 1990 nom. nud. Ref: L. Hoffmann et al., 2005: tbl. 3 (p. 110).
Accepted name (subjective)Chroococcophyceae (Class) Hollerbach et al. 1953 Ref: LPSN, 2020-present: [13 Jun 2026]; 13 Jun 2026. [inferred]
Synonymous nameBlue-Green Bacteria ([unranked])
Synonymous name (objective)Cyanophyceae (Class) Hauck (1885)
IncludingCoccogoneae (Class) Thuret (1875)
IncludingHormogoneae (Class) Thuret (1875)
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