Name: Pseudanabaena Lauterborn 1915

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Pseudanabaena

Gender: feminine

Type species: Pseudanabaena catenata Lauterborn 1915

Valid publication: Lauterborn R. Die sapropelische Lebewelt. Ein Beitrag zur Biologie des Faulschlammes natürlicher Gewässer. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorisch-Medizinischen Vereins zu Heidelberg Serie 2 1915; 13:395-481.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Pseudanabaenaceae Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988. Publication: Anagnostidis K, Komárek J. Modern approach to the classification system of the cyanophytes 3: Oscillatoriales. Algol. Stud. 1988; 50-53:327-472.
  • 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.
  • Elenkin (1949) assigned this genus to the family "Pseudonostocaceae". Publication: Elenkin AA. Monographia algarum Cyanophycearum aquidulcium et terrestrium in finibus URSS inventarum. Pars specialis (Syatematica), Fasc. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. Sumptibus Academiae Scientarum URSS, Mosqua & Leningrad, 1949.
  • Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family "Oscillatoriaceae". Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Pseudoanabaena".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 7
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 8
Total number of child taxa: 8

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Pseudanabaena africana Schwabe and Simonsen 1961	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Pseudanabaena amphigranulata (Van Goor 1918) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Pseudanabaena catenata Lauterborn 1915	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Pseudanabaena frigida (Fritsch 1912) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Pseudanabaena galeata Böcher 1949	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Pseudanabaena limnetica (Lemmermann 1900) Komárek 1974	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Pseudanabaena minima (An 1992) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Pseudanabaena yagii Tuji and Niiyama 2018	validly published under the ICN	correct name

Parent taxon: Pseudanabaenaceae Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988

Assigned by: Anagnostidis K, Komárek J. Modern approach to the classification system of cyanophytes. 3. Oscillatoriales. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Supplement 1988; 80:327-472.

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