Name: "Leptococcaceae" Salazar et al. 2020

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Lep.to.coc.ca’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Leptococcaceae, the Leptococcus family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: lep-to-kok-KA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: "Leptococcus" Walter et al. 2017

Original publication: Salazar VW, Tschoeke DA, Swings J, Cosenza CA, Mattoso M, Thompson CC, Thompson FL. A new genomic taxonomy system for the Synechococcus collective. Environ Microbiol 2020; 22:4557-4570. 🇧🇷

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Salazar et al. (2020) assigned this family to the class Cyanophyceae Hauck 1885. Publication: Salazar VW, Tschoeke DA, Swings J, Cosenza CA, Mattoso M, Thompson CC, Thompson FL. A new genomic taxonomy system for the Synechococcus collective. Environ Microbiol 2020; 22:4557-4570. 🇧🇷
  • 🧕 Salazar et al. (2020) assigned this family to the order "Leptococcales" Salazar et al. 2020. Publication: Salazar VW, Tschoeke DA, Swings J, Cosenza CA, Mattoso M, Thompson CC, Thompson FL. A new genomic taxonomy system for the Synechococcus collective. Environ Microbiol 2020; 22:4557-4570. 🇧🇷
  • 🧍 While the authors did not explicitly propose this taxon name, they did not provide a proper citation of the authority of the name either.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Leptococcus" Walter et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: [Chroococcophyceae, not assigned to order]

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Record number: 57922