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Aerofilum Chakraborty et Mukherjee 2021, gen. nov.
Creators
- 1. School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700 032, India & Department of Botany, Achhruram Memorial College, Jhalda, Purulia 723 202, India & sandeep 061192 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5393 - 0998
- 2. Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan, 410078, China & vvmaruth @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5378 - 6567
- 3. Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700 032, India & achari. anushree @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8544 - 605 X
- 4. Department of Biochemistry, University of Calcutta, 35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700 019, India & arnab. ju 9 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7675 - 7339
- 5. Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700 032, India & drpjaisankar @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0583 - 4920
- 6. School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700 032, India & joydeep. mukherjee @ jadavpuruniversity. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5068 - 8112
Description
Aerofilum Chakraborty et Mukherjee, gen. nov.
Thallus blue-green, growth like fascicles or bundles. Filaments isopolar, uniseriate, unbranched, cells slightly longer than their width, cell length ranged from 1.4 - 2.1 µm and width 0.9 - 1.1 µm. Cross walls have distinct constrictions.
Type species (designated here): Aerofilum fasciculatum Chakraborty et Mukherjee
Etymology: The generic epithet “ Aerofilum ” is derived from Aero Greek for ‘air’ as the strain possesses gas vesicles (aerotopes) and filum Greek for ‘filament’.
Notes
Published as part of Chakraborty, Sandeep, Maruthanayagam, Veerabadhran, Achari, Anushree, Pramanik, Arnab, Jaisankar, Parasuraman & Mukherjee, Joydeep, 2021, Aerofilum fasciculatum gen. nov., sp. nov. (Oculatellaceae) and Euryhalinema pallustris sp. nov. (Prochlorotrichaceae) isolated from an Indian mangrove forest, pp. 165-186 in Phytotaxa 522 (3) on page 182, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.522.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5560375
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Oculatellaceae
- Genus
- Aerofilum
- Kingdom
- Bacteria
- Order
- Synechococcales
- Phylum
- Cyanobacteria
- Scientific name authorship
- Chakraborty et Mukherjee
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aerofilum Chakraborty & Mukherjee, 2021