Phormidium autumnale Gomont 1892

Classification:
Empire Prokaryota
Kingdom Bacteria
Subkingdom Negibacteria
Phylum Cyanobacteria
Class Cyanophyceae
Subclass Oscillatoriophycidae
Order Oscillatoriales
Family Oscillatoriaceae
Genus Phormidium

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retaining wall in a sheltered and brackish water locality, Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, Ría del Burgo, 1991. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Phormidium autumnale Gomont retaining wall in a sheltered and brackish water locality, Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, Ría del Burgo, 1991
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Publication details
Phormidium autumnale Gomont 1892: 187, pl. V/5: figs 23, 24

Published in: Gomont, M. (1892 '1893'). Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées). Deuxième partie. - Lyngbyées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Série 7 16: 91-264, pls 1-7.
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Publication date: 1 January 1892

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Phormidium is Phormidium lucidum Kützing ex Gomont.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Microcoleus autumnalis (Gomont) Strunecky, Komárek & J.R.Johansen

Type information
Type locality: "In nuda terra autumno" (Oscillatoria autumnalis C. Agardh) (INA 1996).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), appearing or reproducing in autumn.

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

Nomenclatural notes
This name is listed as Phormidium autumnale Trevisan ex Gomont 1892 by Strunecky et al. (2013: 1176) but Gomont (1892:187-189) does not attribute the name to Trevisan. - (21 Feb 2014) - M.D. Guiry

INA notes: "Gomont (1892) treated Phormidium vulgare as a synonym of P. autumnalis, so M. vulgaris cannot be based on a Gomont name. Microcoleus vulgaris must be lectotypified with a specimen not nomenclaturally entangled with P. autumnale." - (22 Apr 2014) - M.D. Guiry

New name: later starting- point basionym (INA). - (21 Aug 2014) - G.M. Guiry

Taxonomic notes
It exists also Phormidium autumnale (C. Agardh) Trevisan 1844, Alg. Udin. 20, with Basionym Oscillatoria autumnalis C. Agardh 1822. - (21 Sep 2024) - Salvador Valenzuela Miranda

General environment
This is a freshwater/terrestrial species.

Detailed distribution with sources (Click to Load)

Source of current name
Strunecky, O., Komárek, J., Johansen, J., Lukesová, A. & Elster, J. (2013). Molecular and morphological criteria for revision of the genus Microcoleus (Oscillatoriales, cyanobacteria). Journal of Phycology 49(6): 1167-1180, 4 figs.

Key references
Chu Hoajan [Chu, H.J.] et al. (2007). Flora algarum sinicarum aquae dulcis Tomus IX Cyanophyta Hormogonophyceae. pp. [1-8], i-xviii, 1-312, incl. pls I-CIX. Beijing: Science Press.

Cvijan, M. & Blazencic, J. (1996). Flora algi Srbije. Tom 1. Cyanophyta. pp. [i]-vi, [4], [1]-290, 204 figs. Beograd: Naucna knjiga. [in Serbian]

Desikachary, T.V. (1959). Cyanophyta. pp. [i]-x, [1]-686, pls 1-139. New Delhi: Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

Fritsch, F.E. (1917). Freshwater algae. In: British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910. Natural history report. Botany. (Anon. Eds), pp. 1-17. London: British Museum (Natural History).

Geitler, L. (1932). Cyanophyceae. In: Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Ed. 2. (Rabenhorst, L. Eds) Vol. 14, pp. 673-1196, i-[vi]. Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft.

Hirose, H., Yamagishi, T. & Akiyama, M. (1977). Illustrations of the Japanese fresh-water algae. pp. [8 col. pls], [1]-933, 244 pls in text. Tokyo: Uchida Rokakuho Publishing Co., Ltd. [in Japanese]

Matula, J., Pietryka, M., Richter, D. & Wojtun, B. (2007). Cyanoprokaryota and algae of Arctic terrestrial ecosystems in the Hornsund area, Spitsbergen. Polish Polar Research 28(4): 283-315.

McGregor, G.B. (2007). Freshwater Cyanoprokaryota of North-Eastern Australia 1: Oscillatoriales. Flora of Australia Supplementary Series Number 24. pp. [i]-vi, [1]-123, 17 figs, 14 pls. Canberra: Australia Biological Resources Study.

Nadeau, T.-L., Milbrandt, E.C. & Castenholz, R.W. (2001). Note: Evolutionary relationships of cultivated Antarctic oscillatorians (Cyanobacteria). Journal of Phycology 37: 650-654.

Park, J.-G. (2012). Algal flora of Korea. Volume 5, Number 2 Cyanophyta: Cyanophyceae: Chroococcales, Oscillatoriales. Freshwater Cyanoprokaryota II. pp. [1-6], 1-108, figs 1-56. Incheon: National Institute of Biological Resources.

Pfister, P. (1992). Artenspektrum des Algenaufwuchses in 2 Tiroler Bergbachen -Teil 1: Cyanophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Rhodophyceae Phytobenthos communities from 2 Tyrolean mountain streams. Part 1: Cyanophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Rhodophyceae. Algological Studies 65: 43-61. [in German, English abstract]

Phillipson, J. (1935). Some algae of Victorian soils. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, New Series 47: 262-287, 33 figs.

Rindi, F. & Guiry, M.D. (2004). Composition and spatial variability of terrestrial algal assemblages occurring at the bases of urban walls in Europe. Phycologia 43: 225-235.

Teneva, I., Dzhambazov, B., Mladenov, R. & Schirmer, K. (2005). Molecular and phylogenetic characterization of Phormidium species (Cyanoprokaryota) using the cpcB-IGS-cpcA locus. Journal of Phycology 41: 188-194.

Wehr, J., Sheath, R. & Kociolek, J.P. (2015). Freshwater algae of North America: ecology and classification. Ed. 2. pp. [1]-xvi, 1-1050. Amsterdam etc.: Elsevier, Academic Press.

Whitford, L.A. & Schumacher, G.J. (1969). A manual of the freshwater algae in North Carolina. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station 188: 1–313.

Whitton, B.A. (2011). Cyanobacteria (Cyanophyta). In: The freshwater algal flora of the British Isles. An identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae. Second edition. (John, D.M., Whitton, B.A. & Brook, A.J. Eds), pp. 31-158. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Willame, R., Boutte, C., Grubisic, S., Wilmotte, A., Komarek, J. & Hoffmann, L. (2006). Morphological and molecular characterization of planktonic cyanobacteria from Belgium and Luxembourg. Journal of Phycology 42: 1312-1332.

Created: 10 April 2002 by Elizabeth Moran

Verified by: 17 June 2024 by M.D. Guiry

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References
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Kann, E. & Komárek, J. (1970). Systematische-ökologische Bermerkungen zu den arten des formenkreis Phormidium autumnale. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Limnologie 32: 495-518.
Montechiaro, F. & Giordano, M. (2006). Effect of prolonged dark incubation on pigments and photosynthesis of the cave-dwelling cyanobacterium Phormidium autumnale (Oscillatoriales, Cyanobacteria). Phycologia 45: 704-710.

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