Name: Chrysosporum Zapomělová et al. 2012

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Chry.so’spo.rum. N.L. neut. n. Chrysosporum, The name of the genus is derived from a Greek word chrysos (gold) that reflects the characteristic color of the akinete epispore. The suffix sporum is derived from a Greek word spora (seed), which is a symbolic designation of akinetes commonly used in cyanobacterial nomenclature

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Chrysospor-), k^hry-SO-spo-rum

Type species: Chrysosporum bergii (Ostenfeld 1908) Zapomělová et al. 2012

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zapomělová E, Skácelová O, Pumann P, Kopp R, Janeček E. Biogeographically interesting planktonic Nostocales (Cyanobacteria) in the Czech Republic and their polyphasic evaluation resulting in taxonomic revisions of Anabaena bergii Ostenfeld 1908 (Chrysosporum gen. nov.) and A. tenericaulis Nygaard 1949 (Dolichospermum tenericaule comb. nova). Hydrobiologia 2012; 698:353-365. 🇨🇿

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Aphanizomenonaceae Elenkin 1938. 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. 🇨🇿
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Anabaena Bory ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. Publication: Ostenfeld CH. The Phytoplankton of the Aral Sea and its Affluents, with an Enumeration of the Algae observed. Izvestiya Turkestanskogo otdela Imperatorskogo Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva (Mitteilungen der Turkestanischen Abteilung der Kaiserlichen Russischen Geographischen Gesellschaft) 1908; 5:123-225.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Chrisosporum".
  • 🧍 Full authorship: Zapomelova, Skácelová, Pumman, Kopp and Janeček 2012.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Chrysosporum bergii (Ostenfeld 1908) Zapomělová et al. 2012	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Chrysosporum minor (Kiselev 1927) Komárek 2012	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Chrysosporum ovalisporum (Forti 1911) Zapomelová et al. 2012	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym

Parent taxon: Nodulariaceae Elenkin 1916

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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