Recognizing novel cyanobacterial diversity in marine benthic mats, with the description of Sirenicapillariaceae fam. nov., two new genera, Sirenicapillaria gen. nov. and Tigrinifilum gen. nov., and seven new species

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Berthold, David E., Lefler, Forrest W., Laughinghouse, H. Dail (2022): Recognizing novel cyanobacterial diversity in marine benthic mats, with the description of Sirenicapillariaceae fam. nov., two new genera, Sirenicapillaria gen. nov. and Tigrinifilum gen. nov., and seven new species. Phycologia 61 (2): 146-165, DOI: 10.1080/00318884.2021.2006589, URL: doi.org/10.1080/00318884.2021.2006589 ABSTRACT Marine benthic proliferations are increasing in occurrence, range and duration by way of anthropogenic nutrient loading and climate change.

The spread of these cyanobacteria within a variety of regions has made it fundamental to recognize the diversity and the species involved in these blooms. To expand knowledge on marine cyanobacterial diversity and reveal their phylogenetic relationships, sampling and isolation of benthic proliferative events from underexplored regions were conducted in the USA (Florida) and France (Loire-Atlantique). Cyanobacteria were described with the polyphasic approach using morphology, 16 S rRNA gene phylogeny, 16 S –23 S rRNA ITS secondary structures and pairwise distances.