Name: Anacystis Meneghini 1837

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Anacystis

Gender: feminine (stem: Anacyst-)

Type species: Anacystis marginata Meneghini 1837

Valid publication: Meneghini G. Conspectus algologiae Euganeae. Comentarii di Medicina. Opera Periodica di G.F. Spongia 1837; 4:321-355.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Drouet and Daily (1952) assigned this genus to the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. Publication: Drouet F, Daily WA. A synopsis of the coccoid Myxophyceae. Butler University Botanical Studies 1952; 10:220-223.
  • 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the order Chroococcales Schaffner 1922. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Microcystis Kützing ex Lemmermann 1907. Publication: Kützing FT. Tabulae phycologicae oder Abbildungen der Tange. Vol. 1. W. Köhne, Nordhausen, 1846.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Aaacystis"; "Aimcystis"; "Aizacystis"; "Anacrstis"; "Anacvstis"; "Anacyitis"; "Anacysiis"; "Anacyslis"; "Anacysris"; "Anacystia"; "Anacystidis"; "Anacyszfis"; "Anacytis"; "Anacytsis"; "Anaeystis"; "Anaoystis"; "Anaqstis"; "Anaqystis"; "Ancmcystis"; "Anucystis"; "Aoacystis"; "Auacystis"; "Xnacystis".
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "ANCS" 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: 21
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 32
Total number of child taxa: 33

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Anacystis aeruginosa (Zanardini 1872) Drouet and Daily 1948	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis amplivesiculata Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Anacystis anaptis" Biswal et al. 1980	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Anacystis anomala Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis compacta Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis consociata Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis cyanea (Kützing 1843) Drouet and Daily 1952	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis cylindracea Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anacystis dimidiata (Kützing 1834) Drouet and Daily 1952	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis distans Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis elabens (Brébisson 1842) Setchell and Gardner 1918	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis firma (Kützing 1846) Drouet and Daily 1948	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis gloeocapsoides Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis irregularis Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis limnetica (Lemmermann 1898) Drouet and Daily 1952	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anacystis magnifica Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anacystis marginata Meneghini 1837	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis marina (Hansgirg 1890) Drouet and Daily 1948	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anacystis microsphaeria Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis minutissima Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis montana (Lightfoot 1777) Drouet and Daily 1952	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anacystis nidulans Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anacystis nidulans (Richter 1884) Drouet and Daily 1952	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name, later homonym	synonym
    Anacystis nigropurpurea Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis nigroviolacea Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis pulchra Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anacystis radiata Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis reinboldii Richter 1889	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anacystis roeseana (De Bary 1870) Drouet and Daily 1948	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis thermalis Copeland 1936	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Anacystis thermalis (Meneghini 1837) Drouet and Daily 1952	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name, later homonym	in need of a replacement
    Anacystis trochiscioides Jao 1944	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Anacystis willei Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Microcystaceae Elenkin 1933

Assigned by: Elenkin AA. O sistematicheskom podrazdenii poryadka Chroococcales Geitler (1925). Trudy Botanicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Series 2, Sporovye Rasteniya 1933; 1:17-21.

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Record number: 8092