Genus Brachytrichia

Name: Brachytrichia Zanardini ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Bra.chy.tri’chi.a. Gr. masc. adj. brachys, short; Gr. fem. n. thrix, hair; N.L. fem. n. Brachytrichia, organism consisting of short hairs

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Brachytrichi-), bra-k^hy-TRI-k^hi-a

Type species: Brachytrichia quoyi Bornet and Flahault 1886

Valid publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (deuxième fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième Série 1886; 4:343-373.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Brachytrichiaceae" Wartenberg 1972. Publication: Wartenberg A. Systematik der niederen Pflanzen. VII. Thieme, Stuttgart, 1972.
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Mastigocladaceae Geitler 1925. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family "Symphyonemataceae" Hoffmann et al. 2005. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kastovsky J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) - state in 2004. Algological Studies 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
  • 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family "Symphyonemataceae" Hoffmann et al. 2005. 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. 🇨🇿
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Bmchytrichia"; "Brachgtrichia"; "Brachyirichia"; "Brachylrichia"; "Brachysrichia"; "Brachytrichfa"; "Brachytrichya"; "Brachytricliia"; "Brachytriclzia"; "Brachytrlchia"; "Brachytrychia"; "Rrachytrichia".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
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
    Brachytrichia affinis Setchell and Gardner 1918	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Brachytrichia balani Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Brachytrichia codii Setchell 1926	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Brachytrichia dalmatica (Ercegović 1929) Frémy 1934	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Brachytrichia lloydii (Crouan and Crouan 1867) Silva 1996	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Brachytrichia quoyi Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Scytonemataceae corrig. Frank 1886

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: 6394