Name: Aphanizomenon Morren ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Aphanizomenon, Histoire d’un genre nouveau de la tribu des Confervees, nomme par Vauteur Aphanizomene, in Memoires de l'Acad. royale de Belgique, 1838, X1, p. 11.

Gender: neuter (stem: Aphanizomen-)

Type species: Aphanizomenon flosaquae Ralfs 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 (Botanical Code)

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: "Aphanizomemm"; "Aphanizommon"; "Aphanizonemon"; "Aphanizonienon"; "Aphanizonzeno"; "Aphunizommon".
  • 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.
  • Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "AFZM" 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: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 11
Total number of child taxa: 13

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Aphanizomenon aphanizomenoides (Forti 1911) Horecká and Komárek 1979	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Aphanizomenon capricorni Cronberg and Komárek 2004	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    "Aphanizomenon cyaneum" Ralfs ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	not validly published
    Aphanizomenon favaloroi Otaño 2012	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aphanizomenon flosaquae Ralfs ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aphanizomenon gracile Lemmermann 1907	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aphanizomenon issatschenkoi (Usachev 1938) Proshkina-Lavrenko 1968	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    "Aphanizomenon klebahnii" Novakova et al. 2011	not validly published
    Aphanizomenon ovalisporum Forti 1911	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Aphanizomenon paraflexuosum Watanabe 1991	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aphanizomenon skujae Komárková-Legnerová and Cronberg 1992	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aphanizomenon tropicale Horecká and Komárek 1979	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Aphanizomenon yezoense Watanabe 1991	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: [Aphanizomenonaceae]

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Record number: 6401