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:
  • 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 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". 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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Kodularia"; "Nadularia"; "Nodiilaria"; "Nodnlaria"; "Nodularla"; "Nodulqria"; "Noduluria"; "Nozlularia".
  • 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: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    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 harveyana Thuret ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	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 sphaerocarpa Bornet and Flahault 1886	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]

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/nodulariaCopy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 6400