Name: Lauterbornia Pringsheim 1968

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Lau.ter.bor’ni.a. N.L. fem. n. Lauterbornia, named to honor Robert Lauterborn, German botanist

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Lauterborni-), la͡u-ter-BOR-ni-a

Type species: Lauterbornia nidulans (Richter 1884) Pringsheim 1968

Valid publication: Pringsheim EG. Kleine Mitteilungen über Flagellaten und Algen. XVI. Lauterbornia (Anacystis) nidulans (Richter) nov. gen. comb. Cyanophyceae. Archiv für Mikrobiologie 1968; 63:1-6.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the subfamily "Synechococcoideae". Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Aphanothece Nägeli 1849. Publication: Wittrock VB, Nordstedt CFO. Literatur-öfversigt. Algae aquae dulcis exsiccatae praecipue Scandinavicae quas adjectis algis marinis chlorophyllaceis et phycochromaceis... Botaniska Notiser 1884; 1884:121-128.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Synechococcus Nägeli 1849. Publication: Bourrelly P. Les algues d'eau douce. Initiation à la systématique. Tome III: Les Algues bleues et rouges. Les Eugléniens, Peridiniens et Cryptomonadines. Boubée & Cie, Paris, 1970.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Anacystis Meneghini 1837. Publication: Drouet F, Daily WA. A synopsis of the coccoid Myxophyceae. Butler University Botanical Studies 1952; 10:220-223.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Lauferbornia"; "Lauterbomia"; "Lauterbonia"; "Lauterborni".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Lauterbornia nidulans (Richter 1884) Pringsheim 1968	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Synechococcaceae Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995

Assigned by: Joosten AMT. Flora of the blue-green algae of the Netherlands I The non-filamentous species of inland waters. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht, 2006.

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Record number: 17840