Nostocales

Translingual

Etymology

Nostoc +‎ -ales

Proper noun

Nostocales

1. A taxonomic order within the class Cyanophyceae – filamentous, non-branching cyanobacteria.

Hypernyms

• (order): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Negibacteria – subkingdom; Cyanobacteria – phylum; Cyanophyceae – class

Hyponyms

• (order): Borzinemataceae, Calotrichaceae, Capsosiraceae, Chlorogloeopsidaceae, Dapisostemonaceae, Godleyaceae, Hapalosiphonaceae, Heteroscytonemataceae, Nodulariaceae, Nostocaceae, Rhizonemataceae, Rivulariaceae, Scytonemataceae, Stigonemataceae, Tolypotrichaceae – families

References

• Nostocales on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nostocales on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Nostocales on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Nostocales at List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI