Name: "Amazoninema" Genuário et al. 2018

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.ma.zo.ni.ne’ma. English n. Amazonia, a tropical rainforest in South America; Gr. neut. n. nêma, thread, filament; N.L. neut. n. Amazoninema, a filament from Amazonia

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Amazoninemat-), a-ma-zo-ni-NE-ma

Type species: "Amazoninema brasiliense" Genuário et al. 2018

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Genuario DB, de Souza WR, Monteiro RTR, Sant Anna CL, Melo IS. Amazoninema gen. nov., (Synechococcales, Pseudanabaenaceae) a novel cyanobacteria genus from Brazilian Amazonian rivers. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2249-2257.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

Parent taxon: Nodosilineaceae Strunecký and Mareš 2023

Assigned by: Strunecky O, Ivanova AP, Mares J. An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis. J Phycol 2023; 59:12-51.

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Record number: 520390
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