Name: Limnothrix Meffert 1988

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Limnothrix

Gender: feminine

Type species: Limnothrix redekei (Van Goor 1918) Meffert 1988

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Meffert M-E. Limnothrix Meffert nov. gen. - the unsheathed planktic cyanophycean filaments with polar and central gas vacuoles. Algological Studies 1988; 50-53:269-276.

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

Taxonomic status: 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.
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Oscillatoria Vaucher ex Gomont 1892. Publication: Goor ACJv. Zur Kenntnis der Oscillatoriaceen. Reçueil des Travaux Botaniques Néerlandais 1918; 15:255-262.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Limnothrix amphigranulata (Van Goor 1918) Meffert 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Limnothrix planctonica (Wołoszyńska 1911) Meffert 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Limnothrix redekei (Van Goor 1918) Meffert 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Limnothrix rosea (Utermöhl 1925) Meffert 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym

Parent taxon: Pseudanabaenaceae Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988

Assigned by: Suda S, Watanabe MM, Otsuka S, Mahakahant A, Yongmanitchai W, Nopartnaraporn N, Liu Y, Day JG. Taxonomic revision of water-bloom-forming species of oscillatorioid cyanobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1577-1595.

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