Rippkaea

Rippkaea
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Cyanobacteriota
Class: Cyanophyceae
Order: Chroococcales
Family: Aphanothecaceae
Genus: Rippkaea
J.R.Johansen & Mareš 2019
Species
  • R. orientalis J.R.Johansen & Mareš 2019 (type species)

(see text)

Synonyms

None

Species synonyms

  • R. orientalis
    • Cyanothece PCC 8801 = Synechococcus sp. Rf-1
    • Cyanothece PCC 8802

Rippkaea is a genus of unicellular cyanobacteria in the family Microcystaceae or Aphanothecaceae. The genus was circumscribed in 2019 by J.R. Johansen and Mareš, with Rippkaea orientalis as the type species. Prior to that the genus was treated as Cyanothece or Synechococcus on morphological grounds, which has proven inadequate in light of molecular data.

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