The Pleurocapsales are an order of coccooid cyanobacteria. Pleurocapsales are characterized by having boocytes, specialized cells where multiple fission takes place.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Cyanobacteria |
| Class: | Cyanophyceae |
| Order: | Pleurocapsales Geitler |
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Their ecology is mainly endolytic and calcareous, they are found inside rocks and in low light conditions.[3] Pleurocapsales were thought to be related to Chroococcidiopsis but recent work with phylogenetics of the 16S rDNA gene has shown that Chroococcidiopsis belongs to its own order Chroococcidiopsidales.[4]
Some genera within Pleurocapsales form pseudo-ramifications such as Pleurocapsa sp., Odorella sp, and all the genera within the Hyellaceae family.[5]
Historically, the order Pleurocapsales has been one of the least studied orders of cyanobacteria, due to its endolithic ecology making them difficult to observe.[6]
References
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- ^ Fewer, David; Friedl, Thomas; Büdel, Burkhard (April 2002). "Chroococcidiopsis and Heterocyst-Differentiating Cyanobacteria Are Each Other's Closest Living Relatives". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 23 (1): 82–90. doi:10.1006/mpev.2001.1075. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 12182405.
- ^ Shalygin, Sergei; Huang, I‐Shuo; Allen, Elle H.; Burkholder, JoAnn M.; Zimba, Paul V. (2019-02-13). "Odorella benthonicagen. & sp. nov. (Pleurocapsales, Cyanobacteria): an odor and prolific toxin producer isolated from a California aqueduct". Journal of Phycology. 55 (3): 509–520. doi:10.1111/jpy.12834. ISSN 0022-3646. PMID 30637743. S2CID 58616115.
- ^ Shalygin, Sergei; Kavulic, Katherine J.; Pietrasiak, Nicole; Bohunická, Markéta; Vaccarino, Melissa A.; Chesarino, Nicholas M.; Johansen, Jeffrey R. (2019-02-19). "Neotypification of Pleurocapsa fuliginosa and epitypification of P. minor (Pleurocapsales): resolving a polyphyletic cyanobacterial genus". Phytotaxa. 392 (4): 245. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.392.4.1. ISSN 1179-3163. S2CID 92676499.