Name: Scytonemataceae corrig. Frank 1886

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Scy.to.ne.ma.ta’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Scytonemataceae, the Scytonema family

Pronunciation, gender: sky-to-ne-ma-TA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Scytonema 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)

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Scytonemaceae" Borzì 1892	homotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    Scytonemaceae Frank 1886	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])
    Scytonemataceae corrig. Walton 1931	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name
    Scytonematidae Walton 1931	homotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling and illegitimate (ICN [Botanical Code])
    Tildeniaceae Kossinskaja 1926	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name
    Setchelliellaceae De Toni 1938	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Mastigocladopsidaceae Iyengar and Desikachary 1946	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Parenchymorphaceae corrig. Tseng and Hua 1984	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    "Symphyonemataceae" Hoffmann et al. 2005	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Parenchymorphataceae Tseng and Hua 1984	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])
    "Brachytrichiaceae" Wartenberg 1972	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• 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 Microchaete Thuret 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 Hassallia Berkeley 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 Desmonema Berkeley and Thwaites 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.
  • 🧒 Dragastan (1985) assigned the genus Ortonella Garwood 1914 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.
  • 🧒 Dragastan (1985) assigned the genus Paraortonella Dragastan 1985 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.
  • 🧒 Dragastan (1985) assigned the genus Cayeuxia Frollo 1938 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.
  • 🧒 Geitler (1925) assigned the genus Campylonema corrig. Schmidle 1900 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 Plectonema Thuret ex Gomont 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 Tolypothrix 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 Hydrocoryne Schwabe 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 Spelaeopogon Borzì 1907 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 Seguenzaea Borzì 1907 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 Diplonema Borzì 1917 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 "Diplocoleon" to this family. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧒 Ghose (1920) assigned the genus Campylonema corrig. Schmidle 1900 to this family. Publication: Ghose SL. Campylonema lahorense, a new member of the Scytonemaceae. New. PhytoL 1920; 19:35-39.
  • 🚃 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 (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Sceytonemataceae"; "Scitonemataceae"; "Scyfonemataceae"; "Scykmemataceae"; "Scylonemalaceae"; "Scylonemataceae"; "Scymnemataceae"; "Scytenenmtaceae"; "Scyteuemataceae"; "Scytofemataceae"; "Scytommataceae"; "Scytonecmataceae"; "Scytoneinaceae"; "Scytonemaftaceae"; "Scytonenzataceae"; "Scytonernataceae"; "Scytoriemataceae"; "Sevtonemataceae"; "Seyfonemataceae"; "Syfonemataceae"; "Sytonemataceae".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of McGregor and Sendall (2017). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: SP: 8; BRNM: 4; MCC: 4; BISH: 3; CCALA: 3; PH: 3; CBFS: 3; SAG: 3; US: 2; UC: 2.
  • 🧍 See also Engler (1898). Publication: Engler A. Syllabus der Vorlesung über specielle und medicinisch-pharmaceutische Botanik. Eine Übersicht über das gesamte Pflanzensystem mit Berücksichtigung der Medicinl- und Nutzpflanzen (2nd edt.). Gebrüder Bontraeger, Berlin, 1898.
  • 🧍 Silva (1980) notes that as circumscribed in the Index Nominum Genericorum, this family includes Hydrocoryne, the type of Hydrocorynaceae Elenkin 1949; Pseudoscytonema, the type of Pseudoscytonemataceae Elenkin 1949; Desmonema Berkeley et Thwaites ex Bornet et Flahault 1886, a later homonym and the intended type of Desmonemataceae Kondrat’eva 1968, an invalid name lacking a Latin diagnosis; and Camptylonemopsis; the intended type of Camptylonemopsidaceae Dutt, Datta et Gupta 1975, an invalid name lacking a Latin diagnosis. 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.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 32
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 34
Total number of child taxa: 43

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Aetokthonos Wilde and Johansen 2014	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Arthrosiphon" Kützing 1845	not validly published	synonym
    Arthrosiphon Kützing ex Frank 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Brachytrichia Zanardini ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Brasilonema Fiore et al. 2007	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Chakia" Komárková et al. 2013	not validly published	preferred name
    Coleodesmiopsis corrig. Dutt et al. 1982	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Coleodesmiumopsis Dutt et al. 1982	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Colteronema Copeland 1936	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Croatella Ercegović 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cronbergia Komárek et al. 2010	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanophiothrix Molinari and Guiry 2021	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Dillwynella Bory ex Kuntze 1891	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Dillwynella" Bory 1824	not validly published	synonym
    Diplocolon Nägeli ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Drilosiphon" Kützing 1843	not validly published	synonym
    Drilosiphon Kützing ex Frank 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Eoplectonema Liu 1984	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Ewamiania McGregor and Sendall 2017	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeochlamys Schmidle 1899	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Herpyzonema Weber-Van Bosse 1913	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Iningainema McGregor and Sendall 2017	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Inoconia" Libert 1827	not validly published	preferred name
    "Iphinoe" Lamprinou and Pantazidou 2011	not validly published	preferred name
    Iyengariella Desikachary 1953	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Kalymmatonema Bohunická et al. 2025	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Kyrtuthrix Ercegović 1929	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Loriellopsis" Hernández-Mariné and Canals 2011	not validly published	preferred name
    Mastigocladopsis Iyengar and Desikachary 1946	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Ophiothrix Sant'Anna et al. 2010	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Palaeoscytonema Edhorn 1973	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Parenchymorpha Tseng and Hua 1984	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Petalonema Berkeley ex Correns 1889	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Ramivaginalis Nyberg and Schopf 1984	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Scytonema Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Scytonematopsis Kiseleva 1930	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Spelaeonaias Lamprinou et al. 2016	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symphyonema Jao 1944	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symphyonemopsis Tiwari and Mitra 1969	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symphyosiphon Kützing ex Frank 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Symphyosiphon" Kützing 1843	not validly published	synonym
    Tildenia Kossinskaja 1926	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Voukiella Ercegović 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct 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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