Name: Asterocapsa Chu 1952

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.ste.ro.cap.sa. L. fem. n. capsa, box; N.L. fem. n. Asterocapsa

Gender: feminine (stem: Asterocaps-)

Type species: Asterocapsa gloeotheceformis Chu 1952

Valid publication: Chu H-J. Some New Myxophyceae from Szechwan Province, China. The Ohio Journal of Science 1952; 52:96-101.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Chu (1952) assigned this genus to the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. Publication: Chu H-J. Some New Myxophyceae from Szechwan Province, China. The Ohio Journal of Science 1952; 52:96-101.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Microcystaceae Elenkin 1933. 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.
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Gloeothece Nägeli 1849. Publication: Bourrelly P. Les algues d'eau douce. Initiation à la systématique. Tome III: Les Algues bleues et rouges. Les Eugléniens, Peridiniens et Cryptomonadines. Boubée & Cie, Paris, 1970.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Astemcapsa"; "Asteracapsa"; "Asteruwpsa".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Asterocapsa belizensis Komárek and Komárkova-Legnerová 2007	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Asterocapsa gloeotheceformis Chu 1952	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Asterocapsa hyalina (Chu 1944) Chu 1952	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Asterocapsa nidulans (Gardner 1927) Komárek and Komárkova-Legnerová 2007	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Asterocapsa stagnina Komárek and Komárkova-Legnerová 2007	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Asterocapsa trochiscioides (Jao 1944) Chu 1952	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Aphanothecaceae (Komárek and Anagnostidis 1986) Komárek et al. 2014

Assigned by: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.

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Record number: 6191