Genus Beckia

Name: Beckia Elenkin 1938

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. n. Beckia

Type species: Beckia bella (Beck-Mannagetta 1929) Elenkin 1938

Valid publication: Elenkin AA. Monographia algarum cyanophycearum aquidulcium et terrestrium in finibus URSS inventarum. Pars generalis. Sumptibus Academiae Sicentarum URSS, Mosqua & Leningrad, 1938.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Notes:
- 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Beckiaceae" Elenkin 1933. Publication: Elenkin AA. O sistematicheskom podrazdenii poryadka Chroococcales Geitler (1925). Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. 2, Sporov. Rast. 1933; 1:17-21.
- 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the subfamily "Merismopedioideae". Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
- 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Gomphosphaeriaceae Elenkin 1933. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
- 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus [Microcrocis]. Publication: Komárek J, Anagnostidis K. Nomenclatural novelties in chroococcalean cyanoprokaryotes. Preslia, Praha 1995; 67:15-23.
- ❗ Beckia 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).

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Beckia bella (Beck-Mannagetta 1929) Elenkin 1938	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
Beckia solea Komarenko 1975	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym

Parent taxon: Microcystaceae Elenkin 1933

Assigned by: Komárek J, Anagnostidis K. Modern approach to the classification system of cyanophytes, 2 - Chroococcales. Algological Studies/Archiv für Hydrobiologie 1986; 43:157-226.

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Record number: 6523

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