Name: Scytonemaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Scytonema Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Valid publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (Troisième fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième série 1886; 5:51-129.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Correct name: Scytonemataceae corrig. Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Scytonemataceae Frank 1886	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Scytonemataceae corrig. Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	corrected spelling of name, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Setchelliellaceae De Toni 1938	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • Bornet and Flahault (1886) assigned the genus Tolypothrix Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 to this family. Publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (Troisième fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième série 1886; 5:51-129.
  • Bornet and Flahault (1886) assigned the genus Hydrocoryne Schwabe ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 to this family. Publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (Troisième fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième série 1886; 5:51-129.
  • Bornet and Flahault (1886) assigned the genus Diplocolon Nägeli ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 to this family. Publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (Troisième fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième série 1886; 5:51-129.
  • 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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Sccletonemaceae"; "Scyionemaceae"; "Scytmwmaceae"; "Scytonemtaceae"; "Scytonenmtaceae"; "Scytonmnataceae"; "Seytonemalaceae"; "Soytonemaceae".
  • Irregularly formed name. The expected name to be formed from Scytonema would be "Scytonemataceae" because the genitive of nêma is nêmatos (Latin nematis). See also the discussion in Silva (1980). 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.

Parent taxon: Nostocales Borzì 1914

Assigned by: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.

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Record number: 6099