Anabaena pseudoscillatoria Bory de Saint-Vincent
Publication details
Anabaena pseudoscillatoria Bory de Saint-Vincent 1822: 308
Original publication: B[ory de Saint-Vincent, J.B.G.M.] (1822). Anabaine. Anabaina. In: Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle. (Audouin, I. et al. Eds) Vol. 1, pp. 307-309. Paris: Rey et Gravier; Baudouin Frères.
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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.
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Anabaena oscillarioides Bory de Saint-Vincent 1831
Distribution by country
Type information
Type locality: not specified (Everquem, near Gent, Belgium) (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 68). Notes: This type locality was first described by Drouet (1978: 157, 186) (Silva et al., 1996)
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Anabaena pseudoscillatoria Bory de Saint-Vincent)
Africa: Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
Indian Ocean Islands: Maldives (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
South-west Asia: Bahrain (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Kuwait (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Pakistan (Gul et al. 2007).
South-east Asia: Myanmar (Burma) (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Singapore (Pham et al. 2011).
Australia and New Zealand: Queensland (Phillips 2002).
(as Anabaena oscillarioides Bory de Saint-Vincent)
Europe: Britain (Whitton et al. 2003), France (Willame et al 2006), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Alvarez-Cobelas & Gallardo 1988).
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Guadalupe et al. 1995, Haroun et al. 2002, Aldanondo-Aristizábal, Domínguez-Alvarez & Gil-Rodríguez 2003, Haroun et al. 2003, Anon 2011).
North America: Virginia (Humm 1979).
South-west Asia: Israel (Vinogradova et al. 2000).
Asia: China (Hu & Wei 2006).
Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Day et al. 1995), Northern Territory (Day et al. 1995), Queensland (Day et al. 1995, Bostock & Holland 2010), South Australia (Day et al. 1995), Victoria (Day et al. 1995).
Key references
Gul, R., Zarina, A., Masud-ul-Hasan & Shameel, M. (2007). Taxonomic study of Cyanophyta from Sialkot, Pakistan. International Journal of Phycology and Phycochemistry 3(1): 37-48.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Anabaena&species=pseudoscillatoria
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=pseudoscillatoria
Created: 21 March 2001 by Sandy Lawson
Verified by: 30 March 2013 by M.D. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
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Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:59358
