Name: Homoeotrichaceae Elenkin 1949

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Homoeotrichaceae, the Homoeothrix family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Homoeothrix (Thuret ex Bornet and Flahault 1887) Kirchner 1898

Valid publication: Elenkin AA. Monographia algarum Cyanophycearum aquidulcium et terrestrium in finibus URSS inventarum. Pars specialis (Syatematica), Fasc. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. Sumptibus Academiae Scientarum URSS, Mosqua & Leningrad, 1949.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Elenkin (1949) assigned the genus Amphithrix Bornet and Flahault 1886 to this family. Publication: Elenkin AA. Monographia algarum Cyanophycearum aquidulcium et terrestrium in finibus URSS inventarum. Pars specialis (Syatematica), Fasc. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. Sumptibus Academiae Scientarum URSS, Mosqua & Leningrad, 1949.
  • Elenkin (1949) assigned the genus "Leptochaete" to this family. Publication: Elenkin AA. Monographia algarum Cyanophycearum aquidulcium et terrestrium in finibus URSS inventarum. Pars specialis (Syatematica), Fasc. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. Sumptibus Academiae Scientarum URSS, Mosqua & Leningrad, 1949.
  • The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Homoeothrichaceae".
  • See also the comment on Rivulariaceae 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.

Subdivision:

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Ammatoidea West and West 1897	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Homoeothrix (Thuret ex Bornet and Flahault 1887) Kirchner 1898	validly published under the ICN, conserved name	correct name
    Phormidiochaete Komárek 2001	validly published under the ICN	correct name

Parent taxon: Oscillatoriales Schaffner 1922

Assigned by: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.

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