Name: Stigonema Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. neut. n. nêma, a thread; N.L. neut. n. Stigonema, type genus of the order

Gender: neuter (stem: Stigonemat-)

Type species: Stigonema mamillosum Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Valid publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (Troisième fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième série 1886; 5:51-129.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Stigonemataceae (Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Borzì 1892. Publication: Borzì A. Alghe d'acqua dolce della Papuasia raccolte su cranii umani dissepolti. Nuova Notarisia 1892; 3:35-53.
  • Nomenclatural type of the order Stigonematales (ex Geitler 1925) Cavalier-Smith 2002. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.
  • 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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Btigonema"; "Htigonema"; "Sfigonema"; "Siigonema"; "Sligonema"; "Srigonema"; "Stiganema"; "Stigenema"; "Stigoaema"; "Stigollema"; "Stigomma"; "Stigoncma"; "Stigoneam"; "Stigoneme"; "Stigonenea"; "Stigonerna"; "Stigonesnm"; "Stigorzema"; "Stigunema"; "Stlgonema"; "Strigonema"; "Stvgonema".
  • Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "SGNM" 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: 12
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 12
Total number of child taxa: 12

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Stigonema compactum Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Stigonema congestum Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Stigonema contortum Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Stigonema dinghuense Song and Li 2015	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Stigonema elegans Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Stigonema hormoides Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Stigonema mamillosum Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Stigonema ocellatum Thuret ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Stigonema ramosissimum Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Stigonema robustum Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Stigonema spiniferum Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Stigonema thermale Borzì ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Stigonemataceae (Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Borzì 1892

Assigned by: Borzì A. Alghe d'acqua dolce della Papuasia raccolte su cranii umani dissepolti. Nuova Notarisia 1892; 3:35-53.

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Record number: 6404