Name: Cyanotrichaceae corrig. Kiselev 1947

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Cyanotrichaceae, the Cyanothrix family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Cyanothrix Gardner 1927

Valid publication: Kiselev IA. K morfologii, ekologii, sistematike I geografischeskomu rasprostraneniyu sinezelenoj vodorosli Cyanothrix gardneri (Fremy). I. Kissel. Ampl. I. Kissel. Bot. Zhurn. SSSR 1947; 32:111-118.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Mastigocladaceae Geitler 1925	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Loriellaceae Geitler 1925	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Geitleriaceae Kilgore and Johansen 2018	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Lithonemataceae Elenkin 1949	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Cyanothrichaceae Kiselev 1947	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])
    Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this family to the order Chroococcales Schaffner 1922. 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this family to the order Chroococcales Schaffner 1922. 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.
  • Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus "Johannesbaptistia" to this family. 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus Limnococcus (Komárek and Anagnostidis 1999) Komárková et al. 2010 to this family. 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus "Johannesbaptistia" to this family. 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 Mastigocladaceae Geitler 1925. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. Publication: Kiselev IA. K morfologii, ekologii, sistematike I geografischeskomu rasprostraneniyu sinezelenoj vodorosli Cyanothrix gardneri (Fremy). I. Kissel. Ampl. I. Kissel. Bot. Zhurn. SSSR 1947; 32:111-118.
  • Illegitimate according to Silva (1980) because based on Cyanothrix Gardner 1926, which is a later homonym. The same author regards this name as a synonym of Tubiellaceae. 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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