Species Anabaena portoricensis

Name: Anabaena portoricensis Gardner 1927

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: por.to.ri.cen’sis. N.L. fem. adj. portoricensis, pertaining to Puerto Rico

Gender: feminine

Holotype: 1670 b

Valid publication: Gardner NL. New Myxophyceae from Porto Rico. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 1927; 7:1-144.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Trichormus portoricensis (Gardner 1927) Komárek 2012

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Trichormus portoricensis (Gardner 1927) Komárek 2012	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Notes:
- ❗ Anabaena portoricensis is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Anabaena.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Parent taxon: Anabaena Bory ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Assigned by: Gardner NL. New Myxophyceae from Porto Rico. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 1927; 7:1-144.

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Record number: 31865

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