Name: Mastigocladaceae Geitler 1925

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Mastigocladaceae, the Mastigocladus family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Mastigocladus Cohn ex Kirchner 1898

Valid publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Geitleriaceae Kilgore and Johansen 2018	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Cyanotrichaceae corrig. Kisselew 1947	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name
    Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Lithonemataceae Elenkin 1949	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 (ICN [Botanical Code])
    "Fischerellaceae" Anagnostidis and Komárek 1990	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this family to the order Nostocales corrig. Borzì 1914. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this family to the order "Stigonematales". Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🧒 Geitler (1925) assigned the genus Brachytrichia Zanardini ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 to this family. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧒 Geitler (1925) assigned the genus Mastigocladus Cohn ex Kirchner 1898 to this family. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧒 Geitler (1925) assigned the genus Herpyzonema Weber-Van Bosse 1913 to this family. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧒 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned the genus "Hormactis" Thuret 1875 to this family. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🧒 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned the genus "Eleutheronema" Weber van Bosse 1914 to this family. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🧒 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned the genus Lithonema Ercegović 1929 to this family. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🧒 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned the genus Cyanothrix Schmidle 1897 to this family. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🧒 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned the genus "Lunoevia" to this family. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916. 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 alternatively been placed in the family Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916. Publication: 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.
  • 🚋 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916. 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Masligocladaceae"; "Mastigecladaceae"; "Mastigoaladaceae"; "Mastigocindaceae"; "Mastigoctadaceae"; "Mastigorladaceae"; "Maurigncladaceae"; "Nastigeclndaceae".
  • ❗ Mastigocladaceae 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).
  • 🧍 Silva (1980) notes that as circumscribed in the Index Nominum Genericorum, this family includes Lithonema, the type of Lithonemataceae Elenkin 1949, and Brachytrichia, the type of Brachytrichiaceae Wartenberg 1972, which is not a validly published name. 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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Record number: 6172