Name: Aulosira Kirchner ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Au.lo.si’ra. Gr. masc. n. aulos, flute; Gr. fem. n. seira, rope, chain; N.L. fem. n. Aulosira, flute-like chain

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Aulosir-), a͡u-lo-SI-ra

Type species: Aulosira laxa Kirchner ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Aulosiraceae (Bornet and Flahault 1886) Woronichin 1926. Publication: Woronichin NN. Materialy dlya flory presnovodnykl vodoroslej Kavkaza. I. Schizophyceae. (Okonchanie.). Trudy Leningradsk. Obshch. Estestvoisp. Vyp. 3. Otd. Bot. 1926; 56:45-104.
  • 🧕 Bornet and Flahault (1886) assigned this genus to the tribe Nostoceae Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. 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.
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Microchaetaceae Lemmermann 1907. 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. 🇱🇺
  • 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family "Fortieaceae" Komárek et al. 2014. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335. 🇨🇿
  • 🧕 Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Leptobasaceae Elenkin 1917. 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. 🇨🇿
  • 🧕 Woronichin (1926) assigned this genus to the family Aulosiraceae (Bornet and Flahault 1886) Woronichin 1926. Publication: Woronichin NN. Materialy dlya flory presnovodnykl vodoroslej Kavkaza. I. Schizophyceae. (Okonchanie.). Trudy Leningradsk. Obshch. Estestvoisp. Vyp. 3. Otd. Bot. 1926; 56:45-104.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Nodularia Mertens ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. 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, No 1/2:17-21.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Aiilosira"; "Alulosira"; "Aufosira"; "Auiosira"; "Aulasira"; "Aulcsira"; "Aulesira"; "Auloaira"; "Aulorira"; "Aulosara"; "Aulosiva"; "Aulosjra"; "Aulostra"; "Auloszra"; "Aulusira"; "Autosira"; "Awlosira"; "Lulosira"; "Mulosira".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: BRY: 1; UTEX: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "AUSR" 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: 25
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 26
Total number of child taxa: 27

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Aulosira aenigmatica Frémy 1942	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira africana Frémy 1930	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira bohemensis Lukešová et al. 2009	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira confluens Jao 1948	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira cylindrica Nayal 1934	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira epiphytica (Gardner 1927) Hindáková and Hindák 2017	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira fertilissima Ghose 1924	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira fritschii Bharadwaja 1933	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira godoyana González Guerrero 1948	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira implexa Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira laxa Kirchner ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira major Emoto and Hirose 1940	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira manipurensis Bharadwaja 1963	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira marina Weber-Van Bosse 1926	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira minor Wille 1924	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira planctonica Elenkin 1922	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira polysperma Lagerheim ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira prolifica Bharadwaja 1933	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira pseudoramosa Bharadwaja 1933	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira schauinslandii Lemmermann 1905	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira schweickerdtii Cholnoky 1952	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira striata Woronichin 1923	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira striata Woronichin 1926	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Aulosira terrestre Subba Raju 1964	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Aulosira terrestris corrig. Subba Raju 1964	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira thermalis West 1902	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Aulosira transvaalensis Cholnoky 1955	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Nodulariaceae Elenkin 1916

Assigned by: Elenkin AA. Note sur le genre Nodularia Mert., suivie de la recherche critique sur la famille Nodulariaceae mihi.[ in Russian]. Izvestija Imperatorskago Botaniceskago Sada Petra Velikago 1916; 16:333-346.

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Record number: 6398