Name: Pulvinulariaceae Geitler 1925

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Pulvinulariaceae, the Pulvinularia family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Pulvinularia Borzì 1916

Valid publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Stigonemataceae (Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Borzì 1892

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Sirosiphonaceae Frank 1886	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Stigonemataceae (Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Borzì 1892	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), conserved name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this family to the order "Stigonematales". Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧒 Geitler (1925) assigned the genus Pulvinularia Borzì 1916 to this family. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Stigonemataceae (Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Borzì 1892. 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pulvinulanaceae"; "Pulvmulanaceae"; "Pulvmularlaceae".
  • ❗ Pulvinulariaceae 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: 6173