Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Bacillati - (Phylum) Cyanobacteria - (Class) Cyanophyceae - (Order) Chroococcales - (Family) Microcystaceae

Subsequent positions

Aphanothecaceae (Family) Komárek, J. Kaštovský, J. Mareš & J.R.Johans. (2014)

Ref: J. Komárek et al., 2014: App. 1 (p. 333).

Current position

Microcystaceae (Family) Elenkin (1933)

Ref: O. Strunecký et al., 2023: tbl. 1.

Alternative positions

Aphanothecaceae (Family) Komárek, J. Kaštovský, J. Mareš & J.R.Johans. (2014)	Ref: J. Komárek et al., 2014: App. 1 (p. 333). [new position]
Aphanothecoideae (Subfamily) Komárek & Anagn. (1986)	Ref: J. Komárek & S. Golubić, [2005]: App. 1 (p. 63); CyanoDB[21 Oct 2005].
Cyanobacteriaceae (Family) Hoffmann, Komárek & Kaštovský (2005), nom. inval.	Ref: L. Hoffmann et al., 2005: tbl. 3 (p. 110); CyanoDB(29 Sep 2007).
I (Section) R. Rippka et al. 1979	Ref: R. Rippka et al., 1979
I (Subsection)	Ref: G.M. Garrity & J.G. Holt, 2001a: 157.
I (Family)	Ref: G.M. Garrity et al., 2001b: 4.

Historical positions

Microcystaceae (Family) Elenkin (1933)	Ref: O. Strunecký et al., 2023: tbl. 1.
Aphanothecaceae (Family) Komárek, J. Kaštovský, J. Mareš & J.R.Johans. (2014)	Ref: J. Komárek et al., 2014: App. 1 (p. 333). [new position]
Cyanobacteriaceae (Family) Hoffmann, Komárek & Kaštovský (2005), nom. inval.	Ref: L. Hoffmann et al., 2005: tbl. 3 (p. 110).
Aphanothecoideae (Subfamily) Komárek & Anagn. (1986)	Ref: J. Komárek & S. Golubić, [2005]: App. 1 (p. 63).
I (Family)	Ref: G.M. Garrity et al., 2001b: 4.
I (Subsection)	Ref: G.M. Garrity & J.G. Holt, 2001a: 157.
Cyanobacteria (Phylum) (ex Stanier 1974) Cavalier-Smith 2002 stat. inval.	Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1998: 78. [rough position]
I (Section) R. Rippka et al. 1979	Ref: R. Rippka et al., 1979
Chroococcacean (Subgroup)	Ref: R.Y. Stanier & G. Cohen-Bazire, 1977

Number of Subtaxa

2026

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

6s