Name: Amorphonostoc Elenkin 1936

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.mor.pho.nos’toc. N.L. neut. n. Amorphonostoc

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Amorphonostoc-), a-mor-p^ho-NOS-tok

Type species: Amorphonostoc paludosum (Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Elenkin 1936

Valid publication: Elenkin AA. Monographia algarum cyanophycearum aquidulcium et terrestrium in finibus URSS inventarum. Pars generalis. Sumptibus Academiae Sicentarum URSS, Mosqua & Leningrad, 1937.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Nostoc Vaucher ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Polycoccus" Kützing 1843	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Polycoccus" Kützing 1841	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Nostoc Vaucher ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Stratonostoc Elenkin 1931	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the subfamily "Nostocoideae". Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Nostoc Vaucher ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. Publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (quatrième et dernier fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième Série 1886; 7:177-262.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Amorphonostoe".
  • ❗ Amorphonostoc is the correct name instead if this genus is regarded as a separate genus (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another genus whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
  • 🧍 Komarek and Golubic (1990) regard this name as probably a special subgenus or genus. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Amorphonostoc paludosum (Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Elenkin 1936	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Amorphonostoc punctiforme (Kützing 1841) Elenkin 1936	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Amorphonostoc symbioticum (Wettstein 1915) Elenkin 1936	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym

Parent taxon: Nostocaceae Eichler 1886

Assigned by: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.

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Record number: 15415