Family Calotrichaceae

Name: Calotrichaceae corrig. Cooke 1890

Category, proposed as: family, fam. nov.

Etymology: Ca.lo.tri.cha’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Calotrichaceae, the family of the genus Calothrix

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ka-lo-tri-K^HA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Calothrix Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Valid publication: Cooke MC. Introduction to fresh-water algae with an enumeration of all the British species. Unknown Publisher, London, 1890.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Calotricheae Cooke 1890	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])
    Calotrichaceae Saraf et al. 2019	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Cooke (1890) assigned the tribe "Calotricheae" to this family. Publication: Cooke MC. Introduction to fresh-water algae with an enumeration of all the British species. Unknown Publisher, London, 1890.
  • 🧒 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned the genus Montanoa González Guerrero 1948 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Golubić S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Published by the Authors, Třeboň and Boston, 1990.
  • 🧒 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned the genus "Conferva" to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Golubić S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Published by the Authors, Třeboň and Boston, 1990.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335. 🇨🇿
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kastovsky J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) - state in 2004. Algological Studies 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. Publication: Strunecky O, Ivanova AP, Mares J. An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis. J Phycol 2023; 59:12-51. 🇨🇿
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. Publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh Cyanophyceae, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. (okonchaniye). Izdate'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moskva & Leningrad, 1949.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Calothricaceae"; "Calothrichaceae"; "Calotlirichaceae".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Saraf et al. (2024). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CBFS: 3; CCALA: 3; SP: 2; PCC: 2; BISH: 2; BRNM: 2; UPOC: 1; SAG: 1; MCC: 1.
  • 🧍 According to Silva (1980) this taxon name is a synonym of Rivulariaceae. Publication: Silva PC. Names of classes and families of living algae with special reference to their use in the Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, Utrecht, 1980.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 8

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Brunnivagina Saraf et al. 2024	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Calothrix" Agardh 1824	not validly published	synonym
    Calothrix Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Dulcicalothrix Saraf et al. 2019	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Fulbrightiella Kumar et al. 2023	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Macrochaete Berrendero Gómez et al. 2016	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Rivulariopsis (Kirchner 1898) Woronichin 1923	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Sherwoodiella Johansen and Singh 2023	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Nostocales corrig. Borzì 1914

Assigned by: Saraf A, Suradkar A, Dawda HG, Gaysina LA, Gabidullin Y, Kumat A, Behere I, Kotulkar M, Batule P, Singh P. Phylogenetic complexities of the members of Rivulariaceae with the re-creation of the family Calotrichaceae and description of Dulcicalothrix necridiiformans gen nov., sp nov., and reclassification of Calothrix desertica. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2019; 366:1-10. 🇮🇳

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