NALT

Preferred term

Cyanobacteria

Organism

A phylum of oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria comprised of unicellular to multicellular bacteria possessing chlorophyll a and carrying out oxygenic photosynthesis. Cyanobacteria are the only known organisms capable of fixing both carbon dioxide (in the presence of light) and nitrogen. Cell morphology can include nitrogen-fixing heterocysts and/or resting cells called akinetes. Formerly called blue-green algae, cyanobacteria were traditionally treated as algae.

Eubacteria

blue green algae
blue green bacteria
blue-green algae
blue-green bacteria
Cyanochloronta
Cyanophyta

Cyanobacteria is at the level of phylum; do not confuse with the genus Cyanobacterium in the order Chroococcales.

Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology and Ruggiero, et. al. "A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms".PLoS One, 10 (2015).

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

10633

Has taxonomic rank

phylum

Spanish

Cyanobacteria
blue green algae
blue-green algae
cianobacterias
Cyanochloronta
Cyanophyta

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/72

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Created 1/19/06, last modified 4/14/20