Name: "Pseudocapsosiraceae" Elenkin 1935

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Pseudocapsosiraceae, name not formed from name of nomenclatural type

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Desmosiphon Borzì 1907

Original publication: Elenkin AA. Ob osnovnykh printsipakh sistemy Cyanophyceae. Sovetsk. Bot. 1935; 5:51-83.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Capsosiraceae Geitler 1925

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Capsosiraceae Geitler 1925	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• 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 Desmosiphon Borzì 1907 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 Capsosiraceae Geitler 1925. 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 Stigonemataceae (Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Borzì 1892. 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: "Pseudorapsosiraceae".
  • 🧍 Regarded as not validly published. No diagnosis. Publication: McNeill J, Barrie FR, Buck WR, Demoulin V, Greuter W, Hawksworth DL, Herendeen PS, Knapp S, Marhold K, Prado J, et al. International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants (Melbourne Code). Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein, 2012.

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Record number: 4734