Name: Lithonemataceae Elenkin 1949

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Li.tho.ne.ma.ta’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Lithonemataceae, the Lithonema family

Pronunciation, gender: li-t^ho-ne-ma-TA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Lithonema Ercegović 1929

Valid publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezelenye vodorosli SSSR. Spetsial’naya (sistematicheskaya) chast’. Vyp. 2. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk USSR, Moskva & Leningrad, 1949.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Mastigocladaceae Geitler 1925	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Geitleriaceae Kilgore and Johansen 2018	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Loriellaceae Geitler 1925	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Cyanothrichaceae Kisselew 1947	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling and illegitimate (ICN [Botanical Code])
    "Fischerellaceae" Anagnostidis and Komárek 1990	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Cyanotrichaceae corrig. Kisselew 1947	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Elenkin (1949) assigned this family to the order Oscillatoriales Schaffner 1922. 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.
  • 🧒 Elenkin (1949) assigned the genus Lithonema Ercegović 1929 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.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916. Publication: Ercegovic A. Sur la valeur systématique et la ramification des genres Brachytrichia Zan. et Kyrtuthrix Erceg. et sur un nouveau type d'algue perforante. Annales de Protistologie 1929; 2:127-138.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Mastigocladaceae Geitler 1925. 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: "Lilhonemalaceae".
  • ❗ Lithonemataceae is the correct name instead if this family is regarded as a separate family (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another family whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
  • 🧍 According to Silva (1980) this taxon name is a synonym of Mastigocladaceae. 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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