Name: Crinalium Crow 1927

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Cri.na’li.um. L. masc. n. crinis, a hair; N.L. neut. dim. n. Crinalium, a hair-like organism

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Crinali-), kri-NA-li-um

Type species: Crinalium endophyticum Crow 1927

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Crow WB. Crinalium, a new genus of Cyanophyceae, and its bearing on the morphology of the group. Annals of Botany 1927; 41:161-166.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Crinaliaceae Elenkin 1949. Publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezelenye vodorosli SSSR. Spetsial’naya (sistematicheskaya) chast’. Vyp. 2. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk USSR, Moskva & Leningrad, 1949.
  • 🧕 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 Crinaliaceae Elenkin 1949. 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.
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the order Oscillatoriales Schaffner 1922. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Crinaliurn"; "Orinalium".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 1; SAG: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "CNLM" 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: 3
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
    Crinalium endophyticum Crow 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Crinalium epipsammum De Winder et al. 1990	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Crinalium magnum Fritsch and John 1942	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Gomontiellaceae Elenkin ex Geitler 1942

Assigned by: De Winder B, Stal LJ, Mur LR. Crinalium epipsammum sp. nov.: a filamentous cyanobacterium with trichomes composed of elliptical cells and containing poly-β-(1, 4) glucan (cellulose). J. Gen. Microbiol. 1990; 136:1645-1653.

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