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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Oscillatoria laingii

Name: Oscillatoria laingii Hoffmann and Demoulin 1993

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: laing’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. laingii, named to honor Ebenezer Laing, Ghanaian botanist

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: os-kil-la-TO-ri-a LAIN͡G-i-i, feminine

Holotype: Hoffmann 89-650

Valid publication: Hoffmann L, Demoulin V. Marine Cyanophyceae of Papua New Guinea. III. The genera Borzia and Oscillatoria. Bot. Mar. 1993; 36:451-159.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Oscillatoria Vaucher ex Gomont 1892

Assigned by: Hoffmann L, Demoulin V. Marine Cyanophyceae of Papua New Guinea. III. The genera Borzia and Oscillatoria. Bot. Mar. 1993; 36:451-159.

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Record number: 39960

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