Name: Anabaena Bory ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. ind. v. anabainô; N.L. fem. n. Anabaena

Gender: feminine (stem: Anabaen-)

Type species: Anabaena oscillarioides Bory ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

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Valid publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (quatrième et dernier fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième Série 1886; 7:177-262.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the class "Cyanobacteria". Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Nostocaceae Eichler 1886. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Ababaena"; "Ambaena"; "Anabae"; "Anabaea"; "Anabaeea"; "Anabaema"; "Anabaerta"; "Anabaerza"; "Anabaetza"; "Anabaeua"; "Anabana"; "Anabatna"; "Anabavna"; "Anabcena"; "Anabeana"; "Anabeena"; "Anabena"; "Anabiena"; "Anabmna"; "Anabmwa"; "Anabnena"; "Anabnma"; "Anabsena"; "Anabuena"; "Anabwm"; "Anabwna"; "Anahaena"; "Analaena"; "Anaoaena"; "Anebaena"; "Annbaena"; "Anobaena"; "Anubaena"; "Aoabaena"; "Armbaena"; "Artabaena"; "Auabaena"; "Azmbaena"; "Inabaena".
  • Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Zapomelova et al. (2012). 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: SAG: 2; CCALA: 1.
  • Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "ANBN" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 15
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 87
Total number of child taxa: 96

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Anabaena aequalis Borge 1906	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anabaena affinis Lemmermann 1897	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena akankoensis Watanabe 2003	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena ambigua Rao 1937	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anabaena anomala Fritsch 1949	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena antarctica Fritsch 1912	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena aphanizomenoides Forti 1911	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena arctica Kiselev 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena austroafricana Cronberg and Komárek 2004	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Anabaena azollae" Strasburger 1884	not validly published
    Anabaena azotica Ley 1959	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anabaena bituri Cronberg and Komárek 2004	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena bothae corrig. Welsh 1961	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena bothai Welsh 1961	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Anabaena carmichaelii Cronberg and Komárek 2004	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anabaena caspica Ostenfeld 1902	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena catenula (Kützing 1849) Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena circinalis Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena citrisporum Watanabe 1992	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena compacta (Nygaard 1945) Hickel 1985	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena constricta (Szafer 1910) Geitler 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena crassa (Lemmermann 1898) Komárková-Legnerová and Cronberg 1992	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    "Anabaena curva" Hill 1976	not validly published
    "Anabaena cycadearum" Reinke 1879	not validly published
    Anabaena cylindrica Lemmermann 1896	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anabaena cylindrospermoides Subba Raju 1963	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena danica (Nygaard 1949) Komárková-Legnerová and Eloranta 1992	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena delicatula Lemmermann 1898	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena doliolum Bharadwaja 1935	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena eucompacta Li and Watanabe 1999	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena fallax Komárek and Komárková-Legnerová 2002	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena farciminiformis Cronberg and Komárková 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena fertilissima Rao 1937	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena flosaquae Brébisson ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena fuellebornii Schmidle 1903	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    "Anabaena fusca" Hill 1976	not validly published
    Anabaena gelatinicola Ghose 1924	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena halbfassii Bachmann 1913	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena hansgirgii Schmidle 1900	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena helicoidea Bernard 1908	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena heterospora Nygaard 1949	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena inaequalis Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anabaena isocystoides Welsh 1964	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena iyengarii Bharadwaja 1935	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anabaena jacutica Kiselev 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena khannae Skuja 1949	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena lapponica Borge 1913	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anabaena laxa Braun 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anabaena lemmermannii Richter 1903	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    "Anabaena longicellularis" (Pankow 1965) Komárková-Legnerová and Eloranta 1992	not validly published
    Anabaena lutea Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena macrospora Klebahn 1895	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena maxima Cronberg and Komárek 2004	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena mendotae Trelease 1889	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena minispora Watanabe 1998	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena minutissima Lemmermann 1898	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Anabaena mossii" Walter et al. 2017	not validly published
    Anabaena mucosa Komárková-Legnerová and Eloranta 1992	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena mysorensis Gonzalves and Kamat 1959	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena nathii Vasishta 1960	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena naviculoides Fritsch 1949	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    "Anabaena nygaardii" Cronberg and Komárek 2004	not validly published
    Anabaena oryzae Fritsch 1949	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena oscillarioides Bory ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anabaena oumiana Watanabe 1996	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena parva Philson 1939	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    "Anabaena perturbata" Hill 1976	not validly published
    Anabaena planctonica Brunnthaler 1903	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena propinqua Setchell and Gardner 1919	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena pseudocompacta Watanabe 1996	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena pseudovariabilis Woronichin 1929	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena raciborskii Wołoszyńska 1912	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena randhawae Venkataraman 1958	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena reniformis Lemmermann 1898	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena siamensis Antarikanonda 1985	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena sigmoidea Nygaard 1949	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena skujaelaxum Komárek and Zapomělová 2007	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena smithii (Komárek 1958) Watanabe 1992	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena solitaria Klebahn 1895	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena sphaerica Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anabaena spiroides Klebahn 1895	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena steloides Canabaeus 1929	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena subcylindrica Borge 1921	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anabaena subtropica Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena subvariabilis Archibald 1967	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena thermalis Vouk 1916	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena torquesreginae Komárek 1984	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena torulosa Lagerheim ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anabaena ucrainica (Schkorbatow 1923) Watanabe 1996	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena unispora Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena vaginicola Fritsch and Rich 1929	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena variabilis Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena viguieri Denis and Frémy 1924	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena volzii Lemmermann 1905	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena werneri Brunnthaler 1903	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anabaena zinserlingii Kossinskaja 1929	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym

Parent taxon: [Aphanizomenonaceae]

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