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Family Stigonemaceae
Name: Stigonemaceae (Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Borzì 1892
Type genus: Stigonema Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886
Valid publication: Borzì A. Alghe d'acqua dolce della Papuasia raccolte su cranii umani dissepolti. Nuova Notarisia 1892; 3:35-53.
Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])
Correct name: Stigonemataceae corrig. (Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Borzì 1892
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind Stigonemaceae West 1904 homotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling and illegitimate (ICN [Botanical Code]) Sirosiphonaceae Frank 1886 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) Pulvinulariaceae Geitler 1925 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) Stigonemataceae corrig. (Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Borzì 1892 corrected spelling of name, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), conserved name "Sirosiphoniaceae" Rabenhorst 1863 heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
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Notes:
- 🧒 West (1904) assigned the genus Hapalosiphon Nägeli ex Bornet and Flahault 1886 to this family. Publication: West GS. A treatise on the British freshwater algae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1904.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Sfigonemaiaceae"; "Stigonemacea"; "Stigronemaceae".
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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Record number: 47234
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