Name: Anabaena Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Type species: Anabaena oscillarioides Bory ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

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

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 the literature as: "Anabeana".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 18
Total number of child taxa: 18

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Anabaena azollae Strasburger 1884	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Anabaena azotica Ley 1959	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Anabaena catenula Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Anabaena circinalis Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Anabaena constricta (Szafer 1910) Geitler 1925	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Anabaena flosaquae Brébisson ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Anabaena lemmermannii Richter 1903	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Anabaena macrospora Klebahn 1895	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Anabaena mendotae Trelease 1889	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Anabaena oryzae Fritsch 1949	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Anabaena oscillarioides Bory ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Anabaena planctonica Brunnthaler 1903	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Anabaena raciborskii Woloszynska 1912	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Anabaena reniformis Lemmermann 1898	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Anabaena siamensis Antarikanonda 1985	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Anabaena spiroides Klebahn 1895	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Anabaena variabilis Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Anabaena viguieri Denis and Frémy 1924	validly published under the ICN	synonym

Parent taxon: [Aphanizomenonaceae]

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