Name: Dermocarpaceae Geitler 1925

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Der.mo.car.pa’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Dermocarpaceae, the Dermocarpa family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: der-mo-kar-PA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Dermocarpa Crouan and Crouan 1858

Valid publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this family to the order Dermocarpales Geitler 1925. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧒 Geitler (1925) assigned the genus Clastidium Kirchner 1880 to this family. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧒 Geitler (1925) assigned the genus Dermocarpella Lemmermann 1907 to this family. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧒 Geitler (1925) assigned the genus "Coleonema" Schousboe ex Bornet and Thuret 1880 to this family. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧒 Geitler (1925) assigned the genus Cyanotheca Pascher 1914 to this family. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧒 Hollerbach et al. (1953) assigned the genus Cyanotheca Pascher 1914 to this family. Publication: Hollerbach MM, Kosinskaya EK, Polyansky VI. Sinezelenye vodorosli. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Opredelitel presnovodnykh vodoroslej SSSR, Sovetskaya Nauka, Moskva, 1953, p. 652.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Dermocarpellaceae Ginsburg-Ardré ex Christensen 1978. 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. 🇨🇿
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Dennocarpaceae"; "Denrmocarpaceae"; "Derinocarpaceae"; "Dermaocarpaceae"; "Dermccarpaceae"; "Dermecarpaceae"; "Dernmcarpaceae".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: UC: 7.
  • 🧍 According to Silva (1980) this taxon name is a synonym of Hydrococcaceae. 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.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Dermocarpa Crouan and Crouan 1858	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Polybessurus" Schopf 1977	not validly published	synonym
    Polybessurus Fairchild ex Green et al. 1987	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Sphaenosiphon Reinsch 1875	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym

Parent taxon: Chroococcales corrig. Ardissone 1886

Assigned by: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 4739