Name: Crinaliaceae Elenkin 1949

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Crinaliaceae, the Crinalium family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Crinalium Crow 1927

Valid publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezelenye vodorosli SSSR. Spetsial’naya (sistematicheskaya) chast’. Vyp. 2. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk USSR, Moskva & Leningrad, 1949.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Gomontiellaceae Elenkin ex Geitler 1942

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Gomontiellaceae Elenkin ex Geitler 1942	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Elenkin (1949) assigned this family to the order Oscillatoriales Schaffner 1922. 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.
  • 🧒 Elenkin (1949) assigned the genus Crinalium Crow 1927 to this family. 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 been placed in the family Gomontiellaceae Elenkin ex Geitler 1942. Publication: De Winder B, Stal LJ, Mur LR. Crinalium epipsammum sp. nov.: a filamentous cyanobacterium with trichomes composed of elliptical cells and containing poly-β-(1, 4) glucan (cellulose). J. Gen. Microbiol. 1990; 136:1645-1653.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Crinatiaceae".
  • ❗ Crinaliaceae 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).
  • 🧍 According to Silva (1980) this taxon name is a synonym of Oscillatoriaceae. 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.

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Record number: 6143