Cyanobacteria

See also: cyanobacteria

Translingual

Etymology

cyano- +‎ Bacteria

Proper noun

Cyanobacteria

The only photosynthetic prokaryotes able to produce oxygen.
1. A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Bacteria – (formerly within subkingdom Eubacteria) - the blue-green algae.[1]
2. A taxonomic class within the phylum Cyanobacteria.

Synonyms

(class): Cyanophyta - phylum[1]

Hypernyms

(class): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Negibacteria - subkingdom[1]

Hyponyms

(class): Cyanophyceae, Gloeobacteria - classes[1]

See also

Chroobacteria
Hormogoneae

References

Cyanobacteria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Cyanobacteria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Cyanobacteria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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