Name: Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Rivulariaceae, the family of the genus Rivularia

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Rivularia (Roth 1797) Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Valid publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième série 1886; 3:323-381.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Rivulariaceae Frank 1886	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name
    Microchaetaceae Lemmermann 1907	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Ardissone (1886) assigned this family to the suborder "Nostochineae". Publication: Ardissone F. Phycologia mediterranea. Parte IIa. Oosporee-Zoosporee-Schizosporee. Tipografia Maj e Malnati, Varese, 1886.
  • 🧒 Bornemann (1887) assigned the genus Zonotrichites Bornemann 1887 to this family. Publication: Bornemann JG. Geologische Algenstudien. In: Königlich P (eds), Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen geologischen Landesanstalt und Bergakademie zu Berlin für das Jahr 1886, Simon Schropp'schen Hof-Landkartenhandlung, Berlin, 1887, p. 116-134.
  • 🧒 Bornet and Flahault (1886) assigned the genus Amphithrix Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 to this family. Publication: Bornet E, Flahault CHM. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7 1886; 3:323-281.
  • 🧒 Dragastan (1985) assigned the genus Rivularialithus Maslov 1955 to this family. Publication: Dragastan O. Review of Tethyan Mesozoic Algae of Romania. In: Toomey DF, Nitecki MH (eds), Paleoalgology. Contemporary research and applications, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 1985, p. 101-161.
  • 🧒 Elenkin (1949) assigned the genus Gloeotrichia Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 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.
  • 🧒 Elenkin (1949) assigned the genus Calothrix Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 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.
  • 🧒 Geitler (1925) assigned the genus Tapinothrix Sauvageau 1892 to this family. 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 Gloeotrichia Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 to this family. 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 Calothrix Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 to this family. 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 Homoeothrix (Thuret ex Bornet and Flahault 1887) Kirchner 1898 to this family. 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 Amphithrix Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 to this family. 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 Hammatoidea corrig. West and West 1897 to this family. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Gloeotrichia Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Calothrix Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧒 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned the genus Rivulariopsis (Kirchner 1898) Woronichin 1923 to this family. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🧒 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned the genus Leibleinia (Gomont 1890) Hoffmann 1985 to this family. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🧒 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned the genus Croatella Ercegović 1925 to this family. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🧒 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned the genus "Potarcus" to this family. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus Calothrix Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 to this family. 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.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus "Cyanomargarita" to this family. 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.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus "Macrochaete" to this family. 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.
  • 🧒 Korde (1954) assigned the genus Actinophycus Korde 1954 to this family. Publication: Korde KB. Kembriyskiye vodorosli iz okrestnostey s. Boguchany na r. Angare. In: Shatsky NS (eds), Voprosy geologii Azii. Tom 1, Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 1954, p. 531-555.
  • 🧒 Maslov (1955) assigned the genus Rivularialithus Maslov 1955 to this family. Publication: Maslov VP. O novykh formakh tretichnykh vodoroslej [On the new forms of Tertiary algae]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 1955; 103:145-148.
  • 🧒 Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the genus Kyrtuthrix Ercegović 1929 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 Macrochaete Berrendero Gómez et al. 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 Mastigocoleus Lagerheim ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 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 Calothrix Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 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 Richelia Schmidt 1902 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 Dulcicalothrix 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.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Nostocaceae Eichler 1886. Publication: Eichler AW. Syllabus der Vorlesungen über specielle und medicinisch-pharmaceutische Botanik, 4. Aufl. Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin, 1886.
  • 🚋 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family [Garwoodiaceae].
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Aivulariaceae"; "Bivulariaceae"; "Eivulariaceae"; "Hivulariaceae"; "Ilivulariaceae"; "Kivulariaceae"; "Pivulariaceae"; "Riculariaceae"; "Rigulariaceae"; "Rimtlariaceae"; "Rinulariaceae"; "Ripulariaceae"; "Riualariaceae"; "Riuulariaceae"; "Riuzzlariaceae"; "Riviilariaceae"; "Rivnlariaceae"; "Rivualariaceae"; "Rivudariaceae"; "Rivulanaceae"; "Rivularfaceae"; "Rivularivaceae"; "Rivulartaceae"; "Rivulnriaceae"; "Rivuloriaceae"; "Rivutariaceae"; "Riwlariaceae"; "Rtuulariaceae".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: FCME: 9; CBFS: 1; SP: 1; UC: 1; CCAP: 1; BRNM: 1; CCMP: 1; NMC: 1; CCALA: 1; US: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 13
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 16
Total number of child taxa: 39

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Ainactis" Kützing 1843	not validly published	preferred name
    Ariasmontanoa Molinari and Guiry 2021	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Chalaractis" Kützing 1843	not validly published	preferred name
    "Coleospermum" Kirchner 1878	not validly published	synonym
    Coleospermum Kirchner ex Frank 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    "Dasyactis" Kützing 1843	not validly published	preferred name
    "Desmarestella" Bory 1824	not validly published	preferred name
    Dichothrix Zanardini ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Diplotrichia" Agardh 1842	not validly published	preferred name
    "Euactis" Kützing 1843	not validly published	preferred name
    [Fremyella]	preliminary entry that lacks crucial information
    Gaillardotella Bory ex Kuntze 1898	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    [Gardnerula]	preliminary entry that lacks crucial information
    "Geocyclus" Kützing 1843	not validly published	preferred name
    "Heteractis" Kützing 1843	not validly published	preferred name
    "Hormactis" Thuret 1875	not validly published	preferred name
    Isactis Thuret ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Kordeofistula Molinari and Guiry 2021	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Leptochaete" Borzì 1882	not validly published	synonym
    Leptochaete Borzì ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), rejected name	synonym
    "Limnactis" Kützing 1843	not validly published	preferred name
    "Linckiella" Gaillon 1833	not validly published	preferred name
    "Lophopodium" Kützing ex Rabenhorst 1865	not validly published	preferred name
    "Mastichonema" Kützing 1843	not validly published	synonym
    "Mastigonema" Schwabe 1837	not validly published	preferred name
    Mastigonema Fischer ex Frank 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Microchaete Thuret ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), conserved name	correct name
    Montanoa González Guerrero 1948	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Nunduva González-Resendiz et al. 2018	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Phyllonema Alvarenga et al. 2016	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Physactis" Kützing 1843	not validly published	preferred name
    Polythrix Zanardini ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Portacus" Kuntze 1891	not validly published	preferred name
    Primorivularia Edhorn 1973	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Rivularia (Roth 1797) Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), conserved name	correct name
    Sacconema Borzì ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Schizosiphon" Kützing 1843	not validly published	preferred name
    [Sclerothrix]	preliminary entry that lacks crucial information
    "Zonotrichia" Agardh 1842	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Nostocales corrig. 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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