Name: Leptolyngbya Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Leptolyngbya

Gender: feminine

Type species: Leptolyngbya boryana (Gomont 1899) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Anagnostidis K, Komárek J. Modern approach to the classification system of cyanophytes 3 - Oscillatoriales. Algological Studies 1988; 50-53:327-472.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Leptolyngbyaceae Komárek et al. 2014. 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.
  • 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 Pseudanabaenaceae Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Plectonema Thuret ex Gomont 1892. Publication: Gomont M. Sur quelques Oscillariées nouvelles. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 1899; 46:25-41.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 11
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 15
Total number of child taxa: 16

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Leptolyngbya angustissima (West and West 1897) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Leptolyngbya antarctica (West and West 1911) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Leptolyngbya badia Johansen and Lowe 2008	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Leptolyngbya bijugata (Kongisser 1924) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Leptolyngbya borchgrevinkii Komárek 2007	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Leptolyngbya boryana (Gomont 1899) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Leptolyngbya foveolarum (Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Leptolyngbya fragilis (Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Leptolyngbya frigida (Fritsch 1912) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Leptolyngbya geysericola (Copeland 1936) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Leptolyngbya nodulosa Li and Brand 2007	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Leptolyngbya nostocorum (Bornet ex Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    "Leptolyngbya ohadii" Raanan et al. 2016	not validly published
    Leptolyngbya tenuis (Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Leptolyngbya thermalis Anagnostidis 1988	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Leptolyngbya valderiana (Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN	correct name

Parent taxon: Leptolyngbyaceae Komárek et al. 2014

Assigned by: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.

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