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Family "Pseudocapsosiraceae"
Name: "Pseudocapsosiraceae" Elenkin 1935
Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Pseudocapsosiraceae, name not formed from name of nomenclatural type
Original publication: Elenkin AA. Ob osnovnykh printsipakh sistemy Cyanophyceae. Sovetsk. Bot. 1935; 5:51-83.
Nomenclatural status: not validly published, descriptive name
Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)
Correct name: Capsosiraceae Geitler 1925
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind Capsosiraceae Geitler 1925 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
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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.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pseudorapsosiraceae".
- 🤦 This taxon lacks a discernible description (protologue).
- 🧍 Considered 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.
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: 4734
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