Name: Amazonocrinis Alvarenga et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.ma.zo.no.cri’nis. Gr. fem. pl. n. Amazones, the Amazones; L. masc. n. crinis, lock of hair; N.L. masc. n. Amazonocrinis, an Amazonian lock of hair, referring to the Amazon rainforest, from where the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine (stem: Amazonocrin-)

Type species: Amazonocrinis nigriterrae Alvarenga et al. 2021

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Alvarenga DO, Andreote APD, Branco LHZ, Delbaje E, Cruz RB, Varani AM, Fiore MF. Amazonocrinis nigriterrae gen. nov., sp. nov., Atlanticothrix silvestris gen. nov., sp. nov. and Dendronalium phyllosphericum gen. nov., sp. nov., nostocacean cyanobacteria from Brazilian environments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4811.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Alvarenga et al. (2021) assigned this genus to the family Nostocaceae Eichler 1886. Publication: Alvarenga DO, Andreote APD, Branco LHZ, Delbaje E, Cruz RB, Varani AM, Fiore MF. Amazonocrinis nigriterrae gen. nov., sp. nov., Atlanticothrix silvestris gen. nov., sp. nov. and Dendronalium phyllosphericum gen. nov., sp. nov., nostocacean cyanobacteria from Brazilian environments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4811.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Pal et al. (2024). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 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: 3
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
    Amazonocrinis malviyae Kumar et al. 2022	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Amazonocrinis meghalayensis Pal and Singh 2024	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Amazonocrinis nigriterrae Alvarenga et al. 2021	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Amazonocrinis thailandica Tawong et al. 2022	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Amazonocrinis thailandicus corrig. Tawong et al. 2022	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym

Parent taxon: Nodulariaceae Elenkin 1916

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: 19498