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Family Leuconemataceae
Name: Leuconemataceae Kaas 1983
Etymology: Leu.co.ne.ma.ta’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Leuconemataceae, the Leuconema family
Pronunciation, gender: le͡u-ko-ne-ma-TA-ke-a͡e, feminine
Type genus: Leuconema Kaas 1983
Valid publication:
Kaas H. Leuconema clavatulum gen. et sp. nov. (Leuconemataceae fam. nov.), a colourless blue–green alga (Nostocophyceae). Nordic Journal of Botany 1983; 3:431-435. 
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
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🧕 Kaas (1983) assigned this family to the order Pleurocapsales Geitler 1925.
Publication:
Kaas H. Leuconema clavatulum gen. et sp. nov. (Leuconemataceae fam. nov.), a colourless blue–green alga (Nostocophyceae). Nordic Journal of Botany 1983; 3:431-435.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Leuconcmataceae".
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🧕 Kaas (1983) assigned this family to the order Pleurocapsales Geitler 1925.
Publication:
Kaas H. Leuconema clavatulum gen. et sp. nov. (Leuconemataceae fam. nov.), a colourless blue–green alga (Nostocophyceae). Nordic Journal of Botany 1983; 3:431-435.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Leuconema Kaas 1983 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name
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Parent taxon: Chroococcales corrig. Ardissone 1886
Assigned by:
Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612. 
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Record number: 22699
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