Biology:Phormidium

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Short description: Genus of cyanobacteria

Phormidium
Phormidium cf. laysanense.jpg
Scientific classification e
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Cyanobacteria
Class: Cyanophyceae
Order: Oscillatoriales
Family: Oscillatoriaceae
Genus: Phormidium
Kützing ex Gomont, 1892

Phormidium is a genus of cyanobacteria in the family Oscillatoriaceae.[1]

As a result of recent genetic analyses, several new genera were erected from this genus, e.g. Potamolinea.[2]

Species

83, including

  • Phormidium ambiguum
  • Phormidium allorgei
  • Phormidium aerugineo-caeruleum
  • Phormidium lucidum
  • Phormidium subfuscum[3]

Moved:

  • Phormidium africanumLeptolyngbya africana[4]
  • Phormidium formosumKamptonema formosum[5]

References

  1. "Phormidium Kützing ex Gomont, 1892". Species. GBIF. http://www.gbif.org/species/9022786. 
  2. Martins, Mariéllen Dornelles; Branco, Luis Henrique Zanini (2016). "Potamolinea gen. Nov. (Oscillatoriales, Cyanobacteria): A phylogenetically and ecologically coherent cyanobacterial genus". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 66 (9): 3632–3641. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.001243. PMID 27307052. 
  3. NCBI Taxonomy Browser: Phormidium subfuscum Kützing ex Gomont, 1892 (species).
  4. LPSN: Species Phormidium africanum Lemmermann 1910 and Species Phormidium africanum Lemmermann 1914.
  5. LPSN: Species Phormidium formosum.

Wikidata ☰ Q2793866 entry