Name: Gloeocapsaceae Elenkin 1933

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Gloeocapsaceae, the Gloeocapsa family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Gloeocapsa Kützing 1843

Valid publication: Elenkin AA. O sistematicheskom podrazdenii poryadka Chroococcales Geitler (1925). Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. 2, Sporov. Rast. 1933; 1:17-21.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Chroococcidiopsidaceae Geitler ex Büdel et al. 2012

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Sinocapsaceae" Wang et al. 2019	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Aliterellaceae" Rigonato et al. 2016	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Chlorogloeaceae Geitler 1925	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Chroococcidiopsidaceae Geitler ex Büdel et al. 2012	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Elenkin (1933) assigned the genus Gloeocapsa Kützing 1843 to this family. Publication: Elenkin AA. O sistematicheskom podrazdenii poryadka Chroococcales Geitler (1925). Trudy Botanicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Series 2, Sporovye Rasteniya 1933; 1:17-21.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Chroococcidiopsidaceae Geitler ex Büdel et al. 2012. 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 Microcystaceae Elenkin 1933. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. 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 Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. Publication: Rabenhorst L. Kryptogamen-Flora von Sachsen, Ober-Lausitz, Thüringen und Nord-Böhmen, mit Berücksichtigung der benachbarten Länder: erste Abtheilung: Algen im weitesten Sinne, Leber und Laubmoose. Verlag von Eduard Kummer, Leipzig, 1863.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Glaeocapsaceae"; "Gleeocapsaceae"; "Glocecapsaceae"; "Glococapsaceae"; "Gloeorapsaceae"; "Gloeotapsaceae"; "Gloescapsaceae"; "Glorocapsaceae"; "Glosocapsaceae"; "Oloeocapsaceae".
  • ❗ Gloeocapsaceae 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).
  • 🧍 See also the comment on Chroococcaceae by Silva (1980). 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: 6136