Anabaena torulosa Lagerheim ex Bornet & Flahault

Classification:
Empire Prokaryota
Kingdom Bacteria
Subkingdom Negibacteria
Phylum Cyanobacteria
Class Cyanophyceae
Subclass Nostocophycideae
Order Nostocales
Family Nostocaceae
Genus Anabaena

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Publication details
Anabaena torulosa Lagerheim ex Bornet & Flahault 1886

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Anabaena is Anabaena oscillatorioides Bory de Saint-Vincent ex Bornet & Flahault.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), somewhat cylindrical, with contractions or swellings at intervals along the length.

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Anabaena torulosa Lagerheim ex Bornet & Flahault)
Ireland: Cork (Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1978).

Europe: Britain (Whitton et al. 2003), Ireland (Cotton 1912, Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978), Spain (Miranda 1931, Calvo & Bárbara 2002, Valenzuela Miranda 2005, Bárbara et al. 2005, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Haroun et al. 2002, Haroun et al. 2003, Anon 2011).

Africa: Sierra Leone (Alfinito 2011), Sudan (Papenfuss 1968).

South-west Asia: Punjab (Anon 2012), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

South-east Asia: Singapore (Pham et al. 2011).

Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Day et al. 1995), New Zealand (Chapman 1956, Broady & Merican 2012), Queensland (Day et al. 1995, Bostock & Holland 2010), South Australia (Day et al. 1995), Victoria (Day et al. 1995).

Pacific Islands: French Polynesia (Payri, N'Yeurt & Orempuller 2000).

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Anabaena&species=torulosa

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Anabaena&Species=torulosa

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 08 August 2000 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 25 September 2004 by Fabio Rindi

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 606 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=23794

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:60398