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Name: Nostocaceae Wolle 1887

Category, proposed as: family, fam. nov.

Etymology: Nos.to.ca’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Nostocaceae, the Nostoc family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: nos-to-KA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Nostoc Vaucher ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Valid publication: Wolle F. Fresh Water Algae of the United States. The Comenius Press, Bethlehem, Pa., 1887.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Nostocaceae Eichler 1886

  • Notes:
    • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Nostocaceae Eichler 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 Nostocaceae Eichler 1886. Publication: Komárek J, Golubić S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Published by the Authors, Třeboň and Boston, 1990.
    • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Mostocaceae"; "Naostocaceae"; "Nastocaceae"; "Noestocaceae"; "Nosfecaceae"; "Nosfocaceae"; "Nosiocaceae"; "Nosivcaceae"; "Noslocaceae"; "Nosmcaceae"; "Nosrocaceae"; "Nostccaceae"; "Nostocacees"; "Nostockaceae"; "Nostococcaceae"; "Nostooaceae"; "Nostoohaceae"; "Nostoraceae"; "Noststocaceae"; "Vostocaceae"; "Xostocaceae".
    • 🧍 Later isonym of Nostocaceae Eichler 1886. Publication: Eichler AW. Syllabus der Vorlesungen über specielle und medicinisch-pharmaceutische Botanik, 4. Aufl. Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin, 1886.

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: 50417