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Taxon: Genus "Oscillatoria" Vaucher ex Gomont 1892 nom. inval. (prokaryote)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation J.P.É. Vaucher, 1803 ex M. Gomont, 1892[1893][1892], nom. prok. post., nom. praeinit.
Subsequent use as a prokaryotic name Boone, D.R. & Castenholz, R.W. (eds.) 2001. In G.M. Garrity (ed.), Bergey's Man. Syst. Bacteriol. (ed. 2) 1: 541 (R.W. Castenholz, R. Rippka, M. Herdman & A. Wilmotte: key), 550 (R.W. Castenholz, R. Rippka & M. Herdman: "Form-genus ... Vaucher 1803 (sensu Rippka, Deruelles, Waterbury, Herdman and Stanier 1979").

Etymology

ToponymOscillatoriales (Order) Cavalier-Smith 2002 nom. illeg., nom. rej. Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2002a: tbl. 1 (p. 11). [new]

Attributes

Prokaryotic name, by subsequent use (: nom. prok. post.) [ICNB/ICNP] Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 7 Dec 2025.
Prokaryotic name (: nom. prok.) [ICNB/ICNP] Ref: D.R. Boone & R.W. Castenholz (eds.), 2001. In G.M. Garrity (ed.), Bergey's Man. Syst. Bacteriol. (ed. 2) 1: 550 (R.W. Castenholz, R. Rippka & M. Herdman).
Effectively, but not validly, published name (nom. inval.) [ICNP, 2019: Rule 25, App. 7 (IJSEM)] Ref: G.M. Garrity et al. 2007. Taxon. Outl. Bacteria Archaea (v. 7.7, pt. 2): 46.
Pre-starting-point name (nom. inval.[: praeinit.]) [ICNP, 2022: Rule 30 (Cyanobacteria(ICN), <2021)] Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 7 Dec 2025.
Validly published name under the IC[B]N [ICNP, 2022: Gen. Consid. 5, Rule 30 (Cyanobacteria; >2020)] Ref: LPSN, 2020-present. LPSN: [29 Nov 2025].

Types

Type, by original designation, ofOscillatoriales (Order) Cavalier-Smith 2002 nom. illeg., nom. rej. Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2002a: tbl. 1 (p. 11). [new]

Variants

Validly published nameOscillatoria (Genus) Vaucher ex Gomont 1892 Ref: LPSN, 2020-present: [12 Feb 2026]; 12 Feb 2026. [inferred]
Name in original code of nomenclatureOscillatoria (Genus) Vaucher ex Gomont (1892)
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