Name: Geitleriaceae Kilgore and Johansen 2018

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Geitleriaceae, the Geitleria family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Geitleria Friedmann 1955

Valid publication: Kilgore C, Johansen JR, Mai T, Hauer T, Casamatta DA, Sheil CA. Molecular characterization of Geitleria appalachiana sp. nov. (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria) and formation of Geitleriaceae fam. nov. Fottea 2018; 18:150-163.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Cyanotrichaceae corrig. Kiselev 1947	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name
    Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Lithonemataceae Elenkin 1949	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Loriellaceae Geitler 1925	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Cyanothrichaceae Kiselev 1947	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])
    "Fischerellaceae" Anagnostidis and Komárek 1990	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Mastigocladaceae Geitler 1925	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this family to the order Nostocales corrig. Borzì 1914. 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.
  • 🧒 Kilgore et al. (2018) assigned the genus Geitleria Friedmann 1955 to this family. Publication: Kilgore C, Johansen JR, Mai T, Hauer T, Casamatta DA, Sheil CA. Molecular characterization of Geitleria appalachiana sp. nov. (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria) and formation of Geitleriaceae fam. nov. Fottea 2018; 18:150-163.
  • 🧒 Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus Geitleria Friedmann 1955 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 been placed in the family Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916. 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.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Loriellaceae Geitler 1925. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • ❗ Geitleriaceae 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).
  • ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Kilgore and Johansen) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Kilgore et al.).

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