Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.30099

Name

Nostocaceae Bagchi et al. 2017

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Subsection IV (Borzì 1914) Rippka et al. 2001

Members

genus	Nostoc McNeill et al. 2006
genus	Aliinostoc Bagchi et al. 2017
genus	Amazonocrinis Alvarenga et al. 2021
genus	Anabaena McNeill et al. 2006
genus	Atlanticothrix Alvarenga et al. 2021
genus	Cylindrospermum McNeill et al. 2006
genus	Dendronalium Alvarenga et al. 2021
genus	Desikacharya Saraf et al. 2019
genus	Desmonostoc Hrouzek et al. 2013

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 1985 emend. McNeill et al. 2006 non Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 2006
class Cyanobacteria (Stanier 1973) Woese et al. 2006 emend. McNeill et al. 2006 non Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 1985
order Subsection IV (Borzì 1914) Rippka et al. 2001
family Nostocaceae Bagchi et al. 2017

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the family Nostocaceae Bagchi et al. 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.30099.

Source File

10.1601/tx.30099.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 2, 2021.

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Bagchi SN, Dubey N, Singh P. Phylogenetically distant clade of Nostoc-like taxa with the description of Aliinostoc gen. nov. and Aliinostoc morphoplasticum sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3329-3338. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002112 [PubMed].
Saraf AG, Dawda HG, Singh P. Desikacharya gen. nov., a phylogenetically distinct genus of Cyanobacteria along with the description of two new species, Desikacharya nostocoides sp. nov. and Desikacharya soli sp. nov., and reclassification of Nostoc thermotolerans to Desikacharya thermotolerans comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:307-315. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003093 [PubMed].
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