Name: Camptotrichaceae West and West 1897

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Camptotrichaceae, the Camptothrix family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Camptothrix West and West 1897

Valid publication: West W, West GS. Welwitsch’s African freshwater algae. J. Bot. 1897; 35:264-272.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Pseudonostocaceae Elenkin 1949. Publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh S'yanofiseaye, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. (okonchaniye). Izdate'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 1949.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Cammptotrichaceae"; "Camplothrichaceae"; "Camptathrichaceae"; "Camptolhrichaceae"; "Camptothirichaceae"; "Camptothricaceae"; "Camptothrichiaceae"; "Camptotrichiaceae"; "Canrptotrichaceae"; "Caraptotrichaceae".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Camptothrix West and West 1897	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: [Cyanophyceae, not assigned to order]

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Record number: 6168