Name: Nodulariaceae Elenkin 1916

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Nodulariaceae, the Nodularia family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Nodularia Mertens ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Valid publication: Elenkin AA. [Note sur le genre Nodularia Mert., suivie de la recherche critique sur la famille Nodulariaceae mihi.]. Izvestija Imperatorskago Botaniceskago Sada Petra Velikago 1916; 16:333-344.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus Desikacharya Saraf et al. 2019 to this family. 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus Aliinostoc Bagchi et al. 2017 to this family. 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus Halotia Genuário et al. 2015 to this family. 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus "Cyanospira" Florenzano et al. 1985 to this family. 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus Goleter Miscoe and Johansen 2016 to this family. 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus Cyanocohniella Kaštovský et al. 2014 to this family. 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus Chrysosporum Zapomělová et al. 2012 to this family. 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus Minunostoc Cai and Li 2019 to this family. 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus Umezakia Watanabe 1987 to this family. 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus Anabaenopsis Miller 1923 to this family. 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus Amazonocrinis Alvarenga et al. 2021 to this family. 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus Atlanticothrix Alvarenga et al. 2021 to this family. 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus "Pseudoaliinostoc" to this family. 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 Nostocaceae Eichler 1886. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family "Aphanizomenonaceae". 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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Nmiulariaceae"; "Vodulariaceae".
  • See also the comment on Nostocaceae by Silva (1980). 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.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Nodularia Mertens ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), conserved name	correct name
    Purpureonostoc Cai and Li 2020	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Nostocales Borzì 1914

Assigned by: 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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