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Taxon: Genus "Nodularia" Mertens ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 nom. inval. (prokaryote)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  Mertens, in G.H.B. Jürgens, 1822 ex É. Bornet & C. Flahault, 1888[1886], nom. prok. post., nom. praeinit.
Original name:  Bornet, É. & Flahault, C. 1886. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. (7) 7: 180, 243.
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: 564 (R. Rippka, R.W. Castenholz & M. Herdman: key), 574 (R. Rippka, R.W. Castenholz, I. Iteman & M. Herdman: "Form-genus ... Mertens 1822").

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: 574 (R. Rippka, R.W. Castenholz, I. Iteman & 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): 48.
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.

Variants

Validly published name: Nodularia (Genus) Mertens ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 nom. cons. Ref: LPSN, 2020-present: [24 Jan 2026]; 24 Jan 2026. [inferred]
Name in original code of nomenclature: Nodularia (Genus) Mert. ex Bornet & Flahault (1886), nom. cons. Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present: [28 Aug 2021].
Name in current code of nomenclature: Nodularia (Genus) Mert. ex Bornet & Flahault (1886), nom. cons. Ref: LPSN, 2020-present: [28 Aug 2021].

Homonyms

Senior homonym (unavailable): Nodularia (Genus) Conrad, 1853 Ref: LPSN, 2020-present: [28 Aug 2021] (M. Lopes-Lima et al., 2020).
Senior homonym (unavailable): Nodularia (Genus) Peck (1872), nom. illeg. Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present: 28 Aug 2021.
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