Name: Ahomia Pal and Singh 2024

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.ho’mi.a. N.L. fem. n. Ahomia, named after Ahom/Tai-Ahom, an ethnic group from Assam, the place from where the sample was collected

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Ahomi-), a-HO-mi-a

Type species: Ahomia kamrupensis Pal and Singh 2024

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Pal S, Saraf A, Kumar N, Singh P. Igniting taxonomic curiosity: The amazing story of Amazonocrinis with the description of a new genus Ahomia gen. nov. and novel species of Ahomia, Amazonocrinis, and Dendronalium from the biodiversity-rich northeast region of India. J Phycol 2024; 60:387-408. 🇮🇳

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Pal et al. (2024) assigned this genus to the order Nostocales corrig. Borzì 1914. Publication: Pal S, Saraf A, Kumar N, Singh P. Igniting taxonomic curiosity: The amazing story of Amazonocrinis with the description of a new genus Ahomia gen. nov. and novel species of Ahomia, Amazonocrinis, and Dendronalium from the biodiversity-rich northeast region of India. J Phycol 2024; 60:387-408. 🇮🇳
  • ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Pal and Singh) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Pal et al.).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: QBG: 2.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Ahomia kamrupensis Pal and Singh 2024	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Ahomia purpurea Pal and Singh 2024	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Ahomia soli Pal and Singh 2024	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Ahomia thailandica corrig. (Tawong et al. 2022) Pal and Singh 2024	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Ahomia thailandicus (Tawong et al. 2022) Pal and Singh 2024	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling

Parent taxon: Nodulariaceae Elenkin 1916

Assigned by: Saraf A, Blondet E, Boullie A, Criscuolo A, Gugger M. Insight on the heterocyte patterning and the proheterocyte division in the toxic cyanobacterium Kaarinaea lacus gen. nov., sp. nov., and its genomic potential for natural products. Harmful Algae 2025; 142:102792. 🇫🇷

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Record number: 44180