Name: Leuconemataceae Kaas 1983

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Leuconemataceae, the Leuconema family

Gender: 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

• Notes:
  • 🧕 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".

Subdivision:

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Leuconema Kaas 1983	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Chroococcales Schaffner 1922

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