Genus Aphanizomenon

Name: Aphanizomenon Morren ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: A.pha.ni.zo’me.non. Gr. neut. pres. part. aphanizomenon, something that makes itself unseen; N.L. neut. n. Aphanizomenon, an organism that makes itself unseen

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Aphanizomen-), a-p^ha-ni-ZO-me-non

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

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Limnochlide" Kützing 1843	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Aphanizomenaceae corrig. Elenkin 1938. Publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh Cyanophyceae, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. I. I. Chroococcaceae Geitl.; II. Chamaesiphoneae Geitl.; III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk.: poryadok Stigonematales Geitl.; poryadok Mastigocladales Elenk.; poryadok Diplonematales Elenk.; poryadok Nostocales (Geitl.) Elenk.: sem. Nostocaceae Elenk., sem. Anabaenaceae Elenk., Aphanizomenonaceae Elenk., sem. Nodulariaceae Elenk., sem. Scytonemataceae (Kütz.) Elenk. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow & Leningrad, 1938.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Aphanizomenonaceae Elenkin 1938. Publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh Cyanophyceae, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. I. I. Chroococcaceae Geitl.; II. Chamaesiphoneae Geitl.; III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk.: poryadok Stigonematales Geitl.; poryadok Mastigocladales Elenk.; poryadok Diplonematales Elenk.; poryadok Nostocales (Geitl.) Elenk.: sem. Nostocaceae Elenk., sem. Anabaenaceae Elenk., Aphanizomenonaceae Elenk., sem. Nodulariaceae Elenk., sem. Scytonemataceae (Kütz.) Elenk. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow & Leningrad, 1938.
  • 🧕 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Nostocaceae Eichler 1886. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Nostocaceae Eichler 1886. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kastovsky J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) - state in 2004. Algological Studies 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
  • 🧕 Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Aphanizomenonaceae Elenkin 1938. Publication: 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. 🇨🇿
  • 🧕 Wolle (1887) assigned this genus to the tribe Nostoceae Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. Publication: Wolle F. Fresh Water Algae of the United States. The Comenius Press, Bethlehem, Pa., 1887.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Limnochlide" Kützing 1843. Publication: Kützing FT. Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange. Mit 80 farbig gedruckten Tafeln, gezeichnet und gravirt vom Verfasser. F.A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1843.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Aphanizomemm"; "Aphanizommon"; "Aphanizonemon"; "Aphanizonienon"; "Aphanizonzeno"; "Aphanizsmenon"; "Aphanlzomenon"; "Aphnnizomerzore"; "Aphunizommon"; "Iphanizomenon".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Zapomelova et al. (2012), Cronberg and Komarek (2004). 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: 17
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 27
Total number of child taxa: 30

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Aphanizomenon americanum Reinhard 1941	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    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	preferred name
    Aphanizomenon elenkinii Kisselev 1951	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Aphanizomenon favaloroi Otaño 2012	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aphanizomenon flexuosum Komárek and Kováčik 1989	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 holsaticum Richter 1896	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aphanizomenon hungaricum Komárková-Legnerová and Mátyás 1995	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aphanizomenon incurvum Morren ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	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 kaufmannii Schmidle 1914	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aphanizomenon klebahnii (Elenkin 1909) Pechar and Kalina 1994	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aphanizomenon lacustre (Klebahn 1895) Migula 1905	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Aphanizomenon manguinii Bourrelly 1952	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    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 platense corrig. Seckt 1922	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aphanizomenon platensis Seckt 1922	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Aphanizomenon schindleri Kling et al. 1994	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 slovenicum Rekar and Hindák 2002	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aphanizomenon sphaericum Kisselev 1955	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aphanizomenon tropicale corrig. Horecká and Komárek 1979	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Aphanizomenon tropicalis Horecká and Komárek 1979	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Aphanizomenon ussatchevii Proškina-Lavrenko 1968	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Aphanizomenon volzii (Lemmermann 1905) Komárek 1984	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Aphanizomenon yezoense Watanabe 1991	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Aphanizomenaceae corrig. Elenkin 1938

Assigned by: Elenkin AA. Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh Cyanophyceae, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. I. I. Chroococcaceae Geitl.; II. Chamaesiphoneae Geitl.; III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk.: poryadok Stigonematales Geitl.; poryadok Mastigocladales Elenk.; poryadok Diplonematales Elenk.; poryadok Nostocales (Geitl.) Elenk.: sem. Nostocaceae Elenk., sem. Anabaenaceae Elenk., Aphanizomenonaceae Elenk., sem. Nodulariaceae Elenk., sem. Scytonemataceae (Kütz.) Elenk. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow & Leningrad, 1938.

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