Species Phormidium spirulinoides

Name: Phormidium spirulinoides (Yoneda 1954) Umezaki and Watanabe 1994

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Oscillatoria spirulinoides Yoneda 1954

Etymology: spi.ru.li.no.i’des. N.L. fem. dim. n. Spirulina, a cyanobacterial genus; L. adj. suff. -oides, resembling, similar; from Gr. neut. adj. suff. -eides, resembling, similar; from Gr. neut. n. eîdos, that which is seen, form, shape, figure; N.L. neut. adj. spirulinoides, resembling Spirulina

Pronunciation, gender: spi-ru-li-no-I-des, neuter

Valid publication: Umezaki I, Watanabe M. Enumeration of the Cyanophyta (blue-green algae) of Japan 1. Chroococcales and Oscillatoriales. Japanese Journal of Phycology 1994; 42:175-219.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Phormidium Kützing ex Gomont 1892

Assigned by: Umezaki I, Watanabe M. Enumeration of the Cyanophyta (blue-green algae) of Japan 1. Chroococcales and Oscillatoriales. Japanese Journal of Phycology 1994; 42:175-219.

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Record number: 27828
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