Valid publication:
West W, West GS. Welwitsch's African freshwater algae. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 1897; 35:1-7.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Taxonomic status:
correct name
Notes:
🧕 Silva (1980) assigned this family to the class Cyanophyceae Hauck 1885.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.
🚃 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 Cyanophyceae, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. (okonchaniye). Izdate'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moskva & Leningrad, 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"; "Campfothrichaceae"; "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