Name: Clastidiaceae Drouet and Daily 1952

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Clas.ti.di.a’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Clastidiaceae, the Clastidium family

Pronunciation, gender: klas-ti-di-A-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Clastidium Kirchner 1880

Valid publication: Drouet F, Daily WA. A synopsis of the coccoid Myxophyceae. Butler University Botanical Studies 1952; 10:220-223.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Chamaesiphonaceae Borzì 1878

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Chamaesiphonaceae corrig. Ardissone 1886	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name
    Pascherinemataceae Geitler 1942	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    "Candidatus Brachytrichaceae" Petriglieri et al. 2023	heterotypic synonym, not pro-validly published
    Chamaesiphonaceae Borzì 1878	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    "Cyanophanaceae" Geitler 1955	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Chamaesiphonaceae Geitler 1925	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name
    Chamaesiphoneae Ardissone 1886	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling and illegitimate (ICN [Botanical Code])

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Drouet and Daily (1952) assigned the genus Clastidium Kirchner 1880 to this family. Publication: Drouet F, Daily WA. A synopsis of the coccoid Myxophyceae. Butler University Botanical Studies 1952; 10:220-223.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (1975) assigned the subfamily Chroococcidiopsidoideae Komárek et al. 1975 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Ludvik J, Pokorny V. Cell structure and endospore formation in the blue-green alga Chroococcidiopsis. Arch. Hydrobiol. Suppl. 1975; 46:205-223.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Chamaesiphonaceae Borzì 1878. 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 Dermocarpaceae Geitler 1925. 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: "Clastidaceae"; "Clastidtaceae".
  • ❗ Clastidiaceae is the correct name instead if this family is regarded as a separate family (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another family whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
  • 🧍 Silva (1980) notes that as circumscribed in the Index Nominum Genericorum, this family includes Dermocarpella, which is the type of Dermocarpellaceae T. Christensen 1978. 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.

Parent taxon: Gomontiellales Strunecký and Mareš 2023

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — 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.

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Record number: 6128