Name: Limnothrix Meffert 1988

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. fem. n. thrix, hair; N.L. fem. n. Limnothrix

Gender: feminine (stem: Limnotrich-)

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 Pseudanabaena Lauterborn 1915. Publication: Chang T-P, Köst H-P, Wanner G. Critical observations on some Pseudanabaena species. Algolog. Stud./Arch. Hydrobiol. Suppl. 1985; 38-39:149-155.
  • 🚋 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Limmnothrix"; "Limnorhrix".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NIES: 1; NIVA-CYA: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 18
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 20
Total number of child taxa: 21

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Limnothrix amphigranulata (Van Goor 1918) Meffert 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Limnothrix borgertii (Lemmermann 1907) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Limnothrix borodinii (Kongisser 1932) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Limnothrix brachynema (Skuja 1948) Hindák and Trifonova 1989	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Limnothrix chlorospira (Skuja 1948) Hindák and Trifonova 1989	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Limnothrix guttulata (van Goor 1918) Umezaki and Watanabe 1994	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Limnothrix hypersalina (Campbell and Golubić 1985) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Limnothrix hypolimnica Hindák and Trifonova 1989	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Limnothrix lauterbornii (Schmidle 1901) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Limnothrix meffertae Anagnostidis 2001	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Limnothrix meffertiae corrig. Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Limnothrix mirabilis (Böcher 1949) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Limnothrix obliqueacuminata (Skuja 1956) Meffert 1987	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Limnothrix planctonica (Wołoszyńska 1911) Meffert 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Limnothrix pseudominima (Skuja 1956) Umezaki and Watanabe 1994	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Limnothrix pseudospirulina (Pascher 1925) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Limnothrix pseudovacuolata (Utermöhl ex Koppe 1924) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Limnothrix quasiperforata (Skuja 1939) Umezaki and Watanabe 1994	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
    Limnothrix subgeminata (Archibald 1967) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Pseudanabaenaceae Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988

Assigned by: 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.

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Record number: 6281