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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Nostoc borzioides

Name: Nostoc borzioides Skinner and Entwisle 2002

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: bor.zi.o.i’des. N.L. neut. adj. borzioides, The species epithet is from Borzia, a genus in the Oscillatoriales to which the short trichomes of this species of Nostoc can be compared, especially when heterocytes are absent or rare.

Pronunciation, gender: bor-zi-o-I-des, neuter

Holotype: MEL

Valid publication: Skinner S, Entwisle TJ. Non-marine algae of Australia: 1. Survey of colonial gelatinous blue-green macroalgae (Cyanobacteria). Telopea 2002; 9:589.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Nostoc Vaucher ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Assigned by: Skinner S, Entwisle TJ. Non-marine algae of Australia: 1. Survey of colonial gelatinous blue-green macroalgae (Cyanobacteria). Telopea 2002; 9:589.

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Record number: 38490
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