Leptolyngbya subterranea Umezaki & M.Watanabe, nom. illeg.
Publication details
Leptolyngbya subterranea Umezaki & M.Watanabe 1994: 205, nom. illeg.
Published in: Umezaki, I. & Watanabe, M. (1994). Enumeration of the Cyanophyta (blue-green algae) of Japan 1. Chroococcales and Oscillatoriales. Japanese Journal of Phycology 42: 175-219.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Leptolyngbya is Leptolyngbya boryana (Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Phormidium subterraneum J.J.Copeland 1936
Nomenclatural notes
Combination proposed independently by Anagnostidis (2001: 367). Treated as a new name as the proposedd basionym is an illegitiamte name. - (27 Mar 2014) - M.D. Guiry
General environment
This is a freshwater species.
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Key references
Anagnostidis, K. (2001). Nomenclatural changes in cyanoprokaryotic order Oscillatoriales. Preslia, Praha 73: 359-375.
Komárek, J. & Anagnostidis, K. (2005). Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Cyanoprokaryota: 2. Teil/2nd Part: Oscillatoriales. Vol. 19 pp. 1-759. München: Elsevier Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.
Created: 26 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 23 July 2018 by M.D. Guiry
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