Name: Mastigocladopsidaceae Iyengar and Desikachary 1946

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Mastigocladopsidaceae, the Mastigocladopsis family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Mastigocladopsis Iyengar and Desikachary 1946

Valid publication: Iyengar MOP, Desikachary TV. Mastigocladopsis jogensis gen. et sp. nov., a new member of the Stigonemataceae. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Section B 1946; 24:55-59.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Scytonemataceae Frank 1886

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Tildeniaceae Kossinskaja 1926	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name
    "Symphyonemataceae" Hoffmann et al. 2005	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Brachytrichiaceae" Wartenberg 1972	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Scytonemataceae Frank 1886	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Setchelliellaceae De Toni 1938	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Iyengar and Desikachary (1946) assigned the genus Mastigocladopsis Iyengar and Desikachary 1946 to this family. Publication: Iyengar MOP, Desikachary TV. Mastigocladopsis jogensis gen. et sp. nov., a new member of the Stigonemataceae. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Section B 1946; 24:55-59.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Scytonemataceae Frank 1886. 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 "Symphyonemataceae" Hoffmann et al. 2005. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family "Symphyonemataceae" Hoffmann et al. 2005. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Mastigocladopsaceae".
  • ❗ Mastigocladopsidaceae 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).

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Record number: 6158