Name: "Cyanospira" Florenzano et al. 1985

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. fem. n. speîra; N.L. fem. n. Cyanospira

Gender: feminine (stem: Cyanospir-)

Type species: "Cyanospira rippkae" Florenzano et al. 1985

Original publication: Florenzano G, Sili C, Pelosi E, Vincenzini M. Cyanospira rippkae and Cyanospira capsulata (gen. nov. and spp. nov.): new filamentous heterocystous cyanobacteria from Magadi lake (Kenya). Archives of Microbiology 1985; 140:301-306.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not 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.
  • Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Nostocaceae Eichler 1886. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the subfamily "Anabaenoideae". Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Nodulariaceae Elenkin 1916. 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 in some sources as: "Cyanosfrira"; "Cynospira"; "Eyanospira".
  • Full authorship: Florenzano, Sili, Pelosi and Vincenzini 1985.
  • Komarek and Golubic (1990) regard this name as a invalid (nomen nudum). Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "CYSP" 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: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Cyanospira capsulata" Florenzano et al. 1985	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Cyanospira globosa" (Hirano 1963) Komárek 2012	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Cyanospira rippkae" Florenzano et al. 1985	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: [Aphanizomenonaceae]

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