Species Anabaena eucompacta

Name: Anabaena eucompacta Li and Watanabe 1999

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: eu.com.pac’ta. Gr. adv. , well; L. fem. perf. part. compacta, compact, and the epithet of an Anabaena species; N.L. fem. part. adj. eucompacta, true [Anabaena] compacta

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: a-na-BA͡E-na e͡u-kom-PAK-ta, feminine

Holotype: HAB2014-0111

Valid publication: Li R, Watanabe MM. Anabaena eucompacta sp. nov. (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria), a new planktonic species with tightly spiraled filaments from Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum Series A (Botany) 1999; 25:89-94.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Sphaerospermopsis eucompacta (Li and Watanabe 1999) Li and Li 2015

Parent taxon: Anabaena Bory ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Assigned by: Li R, Watanabe MM. Anabaena eucompacta sp. nov. (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria), a new planktonic species with tightly spiraled filaments from Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum Series A (Botany) 1999; 25:89-94.

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Record number: 17282

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