Name: Borzia Cohn ex Gomont 1892

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Bor’zi.a. N.L. fem. n. Borzia, referring to Borzì

Gender: feminine (stem: Borzi-)

Type species: Borzia trilocularis Cohn ex Gomont 1892

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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Borziaceae Borzì 1914. Publication: Borzì A. Studi sulle Mixoficee. I. Cenni generali - Systema Myxophycearum. Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano 1914; Ser 2 (21):307-360.
  • 🧕 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.
  • 🧕 Elenkin (1949) assigned this genus to the family Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898. Publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh S'yanofiseaye, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. (okonchaniye). Izdate'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 1949.
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧕 Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Gomontiellaceae Elenkin ex Geitler 1942. 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Barzia"; "Berzia"; "Sorzia".
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "BORZ" 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: 10
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 12
Total number of child taxa: 13

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Borzia austriaca (Claus 1961) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Borzia brevis (Kufferath 1914) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Borzia curta (Lemmermann 1908) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Borzia elongata Kromer Baker et al. 1997	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Borzia endophytica (West and West 1912) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Borzia hollerbachii Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Borzia indica Chatterjee and Keshri 2005	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Borzia papuana Hoffmann and Demoulin 1993	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Borzia periklei" Anagnostidis 1988	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Borzia starkii Schiller 1954	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Borzia susedana Ercegović 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Borzia trilocularis Cohn ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Borzia xishaensis Hua 1981	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym

Parent taxon: Borziaceae Borzì 1914

Assigned by: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.

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