Name: "Sinocapsaceae" Wang et al. 2019

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Sinocapsaceae, the Sinocapsa family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Sinocapsa Wang and Li 2019

Original publication: Wang Y, Cai F, Jia N, Li R. Description of a novel coccoid cyanobacterial genus and species Sinocapsa zengkensis gen. nov. sp. nov. (Sinocapsaceae, incertae sedis), with taxonomic notes on genera in Chroococcidiopsidales. Phytotaxa 2019; 409:146-160.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Chroococcidiopsidaceae Geitler ex Büdel et al. 2012

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Aliterellaceae" Rigonato et al. 2016	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Chlorogloeaceae Geitler 1925	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Gloeocapsaceae Elenkin 1933	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Chroococcidiopsidaceae Geitler ex Büdel et al. 2012	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Wang et al. (2019) assigned this family to the order Chroococcidiopsidales Komárek et al. 2014. Publication: Wang Y, Cai F, Jia N, Li R. Description of a novel coccoid cyanobacterial genus and species Sinocapsa zengkensis gen. nov. sp. nov. (Sinocapsaceae, incertae sedis), with taxonomic notes on genera in Chroococcidiopsidales. Phytotaxa 2019; 409:146-160.
  • 🧒 Wang et al. (2019) assigned the genus Sinocapsa Wang and Li 2019 to this family. Publication: Wang Y, Cai F, Jia N, Li R. Description of a novel coccoid cyanobacterial genus and species Sinocapsa zengkensis gen. nov. sp. nov. (Sinocapsaceae, incertae sedis), with taxonomic notes on genera in Chroococcidiopsidales. Phytotaxa 2019; 409:146-160.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Chroococcidiopsidaceae Geitler ex Büdel et al. 2012. 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.
  • 🧍 Regarded as not validly published. No diagnosis. Publication: McNeill J, Barrie FR, Buck WR, Demoulin V, Greuter W, Hawksworth DL, Herendeen PS, Knapp S, Marhold K, Prado J, et al. International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants (Melbourne Code). Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein, 2012.

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