Name: Rivulariaceae Frank 1886

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

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

Gender: feminine

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

Valid publication: Frank AB. Dr Johannes Leunis Synopsis der Pflanzenkunde. 3. Aufl. 3. Band. Unknown Publisher, Hannover, 1886.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Leptobasaceae Elenkin 1917	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name
    Microchaetaceae Lemmermann 1907	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 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: 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: "Bivulariaceae"; "Eivulariaceae"; "Ilivulariaceae"; "Kivulariaceae"; "Pivulariaceae"; "Riculariaceae"; "Rimtlariaceae"; "Ripulariaceae"; "Riualariaceae"; "Riuulariaceae"; "Riuzzlariaceae"; "Riviilariaceae"; "Rivnlariaceae"; "Rivulanaceae"; "Rivularivaceae"; "Rivulartaceae"; "Rivulnriaceae"; "Rivutariaceae"; "Riwlariaceae"; "Rtuulariaceae".
  • 🧍 Illegitimate according to Silva (1980) because based on Rivularia C. Agardh ex Bornet et Flahault 1886, which is a later homonym of Rivularia Roth 1797. Silva (1980) further points out that as circumscribed in the Index Nominum Genericorum, the Rivulariaceae also include Tildenia Kossinskaja 1926, which is a later homonym and the type of the family name Tildeniaceae Kossinskaja 1926, which is not in accordance with the rules of the ICN and was replaced by Setchelliella De Toni f. 1936 and Setchelliellaceae De Toni f. 1938, respectively; Hammatoidea Lemmermann 1907, which is an orthographic variant of Ammatoidea W. West et G. S. West 1897 and not in accordance with the rules of the ICN as well as the type of the family name Hammatoideaceae Elenkin 1949, which is neither in accordance with the rules of the ICN; and Homoeothrix (Thuret ex Bornet et Flahault) Kirchner 1898, the type of Homoeotrichaceae Elenkin 1949. Silva (1980) also remarks that "Rivularia Roth 1797 was emended by C. Agardh (1817, pp. xxxviii, 130) to exclude both of the original species, which effectively created a homonym. Rivularia Roth is a later taxonomic synonym of Chaetophora Schrank 1783 in the Chlorophyceae. Conservation of the cyanophycean Rivularia, which I have proposed elsewhere, would make Rivulariaceae available. An alternative course would be to adopt Calotrichaceae Cooke 1890, based on Calothrix, a genus usually considered confamilial with Rivularia.". Publication: Silva PC. Names of classes and families of living algae with special reference to their use in the Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, Utrecht, 1980.

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Record number: 6080