Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.10961

Name

Prochlorococcus marinus Chisholm et al. 1992

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Prochlorococcus Chisholm et al. 2001 emend. McNeill et al. 2006

Members

subspecies	Prochlorococcus marinus marinus (Chisholm et al. 1992) Rippka et al. 2000
subspecies	Prochlorococcus marinus pastoris Rippka et al. 2001 emend. McNeill et al. 2006

Type Strain

representative organism

SS120^T (=CCMP 1375)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 1985 emend. McNeill et al. 2006 non Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 2006
class Photobacteria Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
subclass Oxyphotobacteriae Gibbons and Murray 1978
order Prochlorales (ex Lewin 1977) Florenzano et al. 1986
family Prochloraceae (ex Lewin 1977) Florenzano et al. 1986
genus Prochlorococcus Chisholm et al. 2001 emend. McNeill et al. 2006
species Prochlorococcus marinus Chisholm et al. 1992

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.16155	NATL2A
10.1601/ex.16150	MIT9303
10.1601/ex.16151	MIT9312
10.1601/ex.16154	NATL1A
10.1601/ex.16147	MIT9211
10.1601/ex.16146	MIT9202
10.1601/ex.16145	AS9601
10.1601/ex.16152	MIT9313 (=RCC0407)
10.1601/ex.16153	MIT9515
10.1601/ex.16149	MIT9301
10.1601/ex.16148	MIT9215

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Prochlorococcus marinus Chisholm et al. 1992. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.10961.

Source File

10.1601/tx.10961.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 9, 2017.

References

Rippka R, Coursin T, Hess W, Lichtlé C, Scanlan DJ, Palinska KA, Iteman I, Partensky F, Houmard J, Herdman M. Prochlorococcus marinus Chisholm et al. 1992 subsp. pastoris subsp. nov. strain PCC 9511, the first axenic chlorophyll a2/b2-containing cyanobacterium (Oxyphotobacteria). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1833-1847. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-5-1833 [PubMed].
Chisholm SW, Frankel SL, Goericke R, Olson RJ, Palenik B, Waterbury JB, Westjohnsrud L, Zettler ER. Prochlorococcus marinus nov. gen. nov. sp.: an oxyphototrophic marine prokaryote containing divinyl chlorophyll a and b. Arch Microbiol 1992; 157:297-300. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00245165.