Name: Leptobasaceae Elenkin 1917

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Leptobasaceae, the Leptobasis family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Leptobasis Elenkin 1915

Valid publication: Elenkin AA. Ob izmenenii printsipov klassifikatsi poryadka Hormogoneae (Thur.) Kirchn. V klasse sinezelenykh vodoroslej. Zhurn. Russk. Bot. Obshch. 1917; 1:147-165.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Nostocaceae Eichler 1886

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Nostocaceae Eichler 1886	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    "Fortieaceae" Komárek et al. 2014	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Nostochaceae Frank 1886	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])
    "Nostoceae" Kützing 1843	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    Nostocaceae corrig. Frank 1886	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name
    Isocystaceae (Borzì 1886) Elenkin 1917	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Camptylonemopsidaceae Dutt et al. 1975	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Pseudonostocaceae Elenkin 1949	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Nostocaceae Wolle 1887	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name
    "Nostocidae" Walton 1931	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Elenkin (1949) assigned this family to the order Nostocales corrig. Borzì 1914. Publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh S'yanofiseaye, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. (okonchaniye). Izdate'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 1949.
  • 🧕 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.
  • 🧒 Elenkin (1917) assigned the genus Leptobasis Elenkin 1915 to this family. Publication: Elenkin AA. Ob izmenenii printsipov klassifikatsi poryadka Hormogoneae (Thur.) Kirchn. V klasse sinezelenykh vodoroslej. Zhurn. Russk. Bot. Obshch. 1917; 1:147-165.
  • 🧒 Elenkin (1949) assigned the genus Leptobasis Elenkin 1915 to this family. Publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh S'yanofiseaye, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. (okonchaniye). Izdate'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 1949.
  • 🧒 Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus Thiochaete Welsh 1961 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 Calochaete Hauer et al. 2013 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 Aulosira Kirchner ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 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 Camptylonemopsis Desikachary 1948 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 Coleospermum Kirchner ex Frank 1886 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 "Fortiea" 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 Nostocaceae Eichler 1886. Publication: Hauer T, Bohunicka M, Johansen JR, Mares J, Berrendero-Gomez E. Reassessment of the cyanobacterial family Microchaetaceae and establishment of new families Tolypothrichaceae and Godleyaceae. J Phycol 2014; 50:1089-1100.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Microchaetaceae Lemmermann 1907. 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 Microchaetaceae Lemmermann 1907. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Lepfobasaceae"; "Lepiobasaceae"; "Leplobasaceae"; "Leptebasaceae"; "Leptolmsaceae".
  • 🧍 Illegitimate according to Silva (1980) because based on Leptobasis Elenkin 1915, which is a later homonym. The same author regards this name as a synonym of Microchaetaceae. 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.

Parent taxon: Nostocales corrig. Borzì 1914

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — 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.

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