Name: Nodularia Mertens ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: L. masc. n. nodus; N.L. fem. n. Nodularia

Gender: feminine (stem: Nodulari-)

Type species: Nodularia sphaerocarpa Bornet and Flahault 1886

Valid publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (quatrième et dernier fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième Série 1886; 7:177-262.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Nodulariaceae Elenkin 1916. Publication: Elenkin AA. Note sur le genre Nodularia Mert., suivie de la recherche critique sur la famille Nodulariaceae mihi.[ in Russian]. Izvestija Imperatorskago Botaniceskago Sada Petra Velikago 1916; 16:333-346.
  • 🧕 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.
  • 🧕 Bornet and Flahault (1886) assigned this genus to the tribe Nostoceae Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. Publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (quatrième et dernier fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième Série 1886; 7:177-262.
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Nostocaceae Eichler 1886. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧕 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 et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Aphanizomenonaceae Elenkin 1938. 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.
  • 🧕 Wolle (1887) assigned this genus to the tribe Nostoceae Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. Publication: Wolle F. Fresh Water Algae of the United States. The Comenius Press, Bethlehem, Pa., 1887.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Kodularia"; "Modularia"; "Nadularia"; "Nedularia"; "Noclularia"; "Nodidaria"; "Nodiilaria"; "Nodnlaria"; "Nodularis"; "Nodularla"; "Nodulqria"; "Noduluria"; "Nodutaria"; "Nozlularia"; "Nuduiaria"; "Pfodularia"; "Vodularia".
  • 🧍 Nodularia is also a name of freshwater mussels. Publication: Lopes-Lima M, Hattori A, Kondo T, Hee Lee J, Ki Kim S, Shirai A, Hayashi H, Usui T, Sakuma K, Toriya T, et al. Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the rising sun (Far East Asia): phylogeny, systematics, and distribution. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2020; 146:106755.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "NDLA" 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: 18
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 22
Total number of child taxa: 24

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Nodularia aerophila Brabez 1941	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nodularia baltica Komárek et al. 1993	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nodularia crassa (Woronichin 1929) Komárek et al. 1993	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nodularia epiphytica Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Nodularia fertilissima Ghose 1931	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Nodularia fertilissima" Randhawa 1936	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Nodularia fusca Taylor 1928	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    "Nodularia haraviana" Minhas et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Nodularia harveyana Thuret ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nodularia hawaiiensis Tilden 1901	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nodularia implexa (Bornet and Flahault 1886) Bourrelly 1970	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nodularia laxa (Kirchner ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Compère 1974	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Nodularia mainensis Harvey 1889	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nodularia major (Bornet and Flahault 1886) Kirchner 1898	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nodularia moravica Hindák et al. 2003	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nodularia paludosa Wolle 1887	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nodularia quadrata Fritsch 1912	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nodularia rajkotii Gupte 1964	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nodularia skujae Gonzalez Guerrero 1928	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nodularia sphaerocarpa Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nodularia spumigena Mertens ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nodularia tenuis West 1907	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Nodularia turicensis Hansgirg 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nodularia willei Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Nodulariaceae Elenkin 1916

Assigned by: Elenkin AA. Note sur le genre Nodularia Mert., suivie de la recherche critique sur la famille Nodulariaceae mihi.[ in Russian]. Izvestija Imperatorskago Botaniceskago Sada Petra Velikago 1916; 16:333-346.

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