Species Oscillatoria filiformis

Name: Oscillatoria filiformis Copeland 1936

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: fi.li.for’mis. L. masc./fem. adj. suff. -formis, form; N.L. fem. adj. filiformis, thread-shaped

Gender: feminine

Holotype: Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden 327

Valid publication: Copeland JJ. Yellowstone thermal Myxophyceae. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1936; 36:1-232.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Jaaginema filiforme (Copeland 1936) Anagnostidis 2001

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Jaaginema filiforme (Copeland 1936) Anagnostidis 2001	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Notes:
- ❗ Oscillatoria filiformis 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 Oscillatoria.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Parent taxon: Oscillatoria Vaucher ex Gomont 1892

Assigned by: Copeland JJ. Yellowstone thermal Myxophyceae. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1936; 36:1-232.

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Record number: 27500

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