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DIVERSITY-BASEL
Volume 15, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/d15090975
Keywords
thermal; Cyanophyta; blue-green algae; taxonomy; new species; new genus; merging
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In this study, cyanobacterial samples were collected from thermal sites in Yellowstone National Park, and the richness of filamentous cyanobacteria was discussed. A new genus and several new species were described, and the merging of other genera was proposed based on molecular data analysis.
In 2019, cyanobacterial samples were collected from thermal sites in Yellowstone National Park. In this paper, we discuss the considerable richness of representatives of simple filamentous cyanobacteria. Using a polyphasic approach, one new genus, Copelandiella, with two species (C. yellowstonensis and C. thermalis) and eight additional new species Albertania prattii, K. anagnostidisii, Kovacikia brockii, Leptolyngbya tildenae, L. vaporiphila, Nodosilinea calida, N. igneolacustris, and Oculatella castenholzii were described. At the same time, by analyzing our new molecular data, we concluded that other genera of trichal cyanobacteria can be merged with existing genera: species within the genus Plectolyngbya are herein transferred to Leptolyngbya, and if some nomenclatural issues are resolved, species within the genus Leptothermofonsia will be subsequently transferred to the genus Kovacikia, an earlier synonym.
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