Name: Arthrospira Stizenberger ex Gomont 1892

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ar.thro.spi’ra. Gr. fem. n. speîra, a coil; N.L. fem. n. Arthrospira, a cyanobacterial genus

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Arthrospir-), ar-t^hro-SPI-ra

Type species: Arthrospira jenneri Stizenberger ex Gomont 1892

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Gomont M. Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées) deuxiéme partie -Lyngbyées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Série 7 1892; 16:91-264.

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. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Engler (1898) assigned this genus to the family Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898. Publication: Engler A. Syllabus der Vorlesung über specielle und medicinisch-pharmaceutische Botanik. Eine Übersicht über das gesamte Pflanzensystem mit Berücksichtigung der Medicinl- und Nutzpflanzen (2nd edt.). Gebrüder Bontraeger, Berlin, 1898.
  • 🧕 Forti (1907) assigned this genus to the subfamily Spirulinoideae corrig. Forti 1907. Publication: Forti A. Sylloge Myxophycearum. In: De Toni JB (eds), Sylloge algarum omnium hucusque cognitarum. Vol. V, Sumptibus auctoris, Patavii, 1907, p. 1-761.
  • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Phormidiaceae Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Oscillatoria Vaucher ex Gomont 1892. Publication: Compère P. Cyanophycées de la region du lac Tchad, taxons, combinaisons et noms nouveaux. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique / Bulletin van de National Plantentuin van België 1974; 44:17-21.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Arfizmspira"; "Arhrospira"; "Arihrospira"; "Arlhrospira"; "Arthospira"; "Arthraspira"; "Arthrospfra"; "Arthrospiva"; "Arthrosplra"; "Artlirospira"; "Artlwosptra"; "Artrhospira"; "Artrosphira"; "Artrospira"; "Athrospira"; "Atihrospira"; "Avrthrospira".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: PCC: 2; UTEX: 2; SP: 2; CCALA: 1; SAG: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "ARSP" 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: 23
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 40
Total number of child taxa: 45

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Arthrospira ardissonei corrig. (Cohn ex Rabenhorst 1865) Forti 1907	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira ardissonii (Cohn ex Rabenhorst 1865) Forti 1907	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Arthrospira argentina (Frenguelli 1937) Guarrera and Kühnemann 1949	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira balkrishnanii Kamat 1963	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira braunii (Kützing 1863) Crow 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Arthrospira braunii (Kützing 1863) Forti 1907	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira breviarticulata Setchell and Gardner 1918	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Arthrospira brevis Wang 1933	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira brevis (Kützing ex Gomont 1892) Drouet 1968	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name, later homonym	synonym
    Arthrospira curta Lemmermann 1908	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Arthrospira desikacharyiensis Vasishta 1962	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Arthrospira erdosensis" Zhang et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    Arthrospira funiformis Vouk 1915	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Arthrospira fusiformis (Woronichin 1934) Komárek and Lund 1990	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Arthrospira gomontiana Setchell 1895	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Arthrospira jenneri Stizenberger ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira joshii Vasishta 1964	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira khannae Drouet and Strickland 1942	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira laxa (Smith 1916) Crow 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Arthrospira laxissima Setchell 1924	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Arthrospira leopoliensis Raciborski 1910	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Arthrospira major (Kützing 1843) Crow 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira massartii Kufferath 1914	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Arthrospira maxima Setchell and Gardner 1917	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Arthrospira meneghiniana (Zanardini 1840) Crow 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira miniata Hauck ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Arthrospira naegeli (Brügger 1863) Forti 1907	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Arthrospira naegelii corrig. (Brügger 1863) Forti 1907	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira neapolitana (Gomont 1892) Drouet 1969	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Arthrospira nitrilium" Walter et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name
    Arthrospira nordstedtii (Gomont 1892) Crow 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira oceanica (Crouan and Crouan 1854) Crow 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira okensis Meyer 1926	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Arthrospira pellucida Wang 1933	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira platensis Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Arthrospira santannae Komárek and Komárková-Legnerová 2007	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Arthrospira sesilensis" Walter et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name
    Arthrospira setchellii De Toni f. 1934	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Arthrospira skujae Magrin et al. 1997	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira spirulinoides Ghose 1924	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Arthrospira subsalsa (Oersted 1842) Crow 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira subtilissima (Kützing 1843) Crow 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira tenuis Brühl and Biswas 1922	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira tenuissima (Kützing 1836) Crow 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Arthrospira versicolor (Cohn ex Rabenhorst 1865) Crow 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Microcoleaceae (Hansgirg 1892) Strunecký et al. 2013

Assigned by: 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. 🇨🇿

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