Published August 16, 2018 | Version v1
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Tildeniella Mai, Johansen et Pietrasiak 2018, gen. nov.

  • 1. Department of Biology, John Carroll University, 1 John Carroll Blvd., University Heights, Ohio 44118, USA & Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Skeen Hall Room N 127, P. O Box 30003 MSC 3 Q, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA.
  • 2. Department of Biology, John Carroll University, 1 John Carroll Blvd., University Heights, Ohio 44118, USA & Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, 31 Branišovská, 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
  • 3. Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Skeen Hall Room N 127, P. O Box 30003 MSC 3 Q, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA.
  • 4. Department of Biology, John Carroll University, 1 John Carroll Blvd., University Heights, Ohio 44118, USA

Description

Tildeniella Mai, Johansen et Pietrasiak gen. nov.

Description:— Filaments with or without sheath, straight, flexuous or spirally coiled. Sheath thin, firm, colorless when present. Trichomes untapered, not constricted to slightly constricted at the crosswalls, with thin translucent crosswalls that are sometimes hardly visible, under 3 μm wide, without necrdia and hormogonia. Cells longer than wide. End cells rounded. Phylogenetically distinct from all other genera in the Oculatellaceae.

Etymology:— named for Josephine Tilden, a prominent American cyanobacteriologist of the mid-20th century.

Type species:— Tildeniella torsiva Mai, Johansen et Pietrasiak sp. nov.

Notes

Published as part of Mai, Truc, Johansen, Jeffrey R., Pietrasiak, Nicole, Bohunická, Markéta & Martin, Michael P., 2018, Revision of the Synechococcales (Cyanobacteria) through recognition of four families including Oculatellaceae fam. nov. and Trichocoleaceae fam. nov. and six new genera containing 14 species, pp. 1-59 in Phytotaxa 365 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.365.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13704923

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Biodiversity

Family
Oculatellaceae
Genus
Tildeniella
Kingdom
Bacteria
Order
Synechococcales
Phylum
Cyanobacteria
Scientific name authorship
Mai, Johansen et Pietrasiak
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Tildeniella Mai, Johansen & Pietrasiak, 2018