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Genus Calothrix

Name: Calothrix Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Ca’lo.thrix. Gr. masc. adj. kalos, beautiful; Gr. fem. n. thrix, hair; N.L. fem. n. Calothrix, a beautiful hair

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Calotrich-), KA-lo-thrix

Type species: Calothrix confervicola Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Valid publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième série 1886; 3:323-381.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

  • Notes:
    • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Calotrichaceae Saraf et al. 2019. Publication: Saraf A, Suradkar A, Dawda HG, Gaysina LA, Gabidullin Y, Kumat A, Behere I, Kotulkar M, Batule P, Singh P. Phylogenetic complexities of the members of Rivulariaceae with the re-creation of the family Calotrichaceae and description of Dulcicalothrix necridiiformans gen nov., sp nov., and reclassification of Calothrix desertica. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2019; 366:1-10. 🇮🇳
    • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Calotrichaceae corrig. Cooke 1890. Publication: Cooke MC. Introduction to fresh-water algae with an enumeration of all the British species. Unknown Publisher, London, 1890.
    • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Calotricheae Cooke 1890. Publication: Cooke MC. Introduction to fresh-water algae with an enumeration of all the British species. Unknown Publisher, London, 1890.
    • 🧕 Bennett and Murray (1889) assigned this genus to the order Chroococcales corrig. Ardissone 1886. Publication: Bennett AW, Murray G. A handbook of cryptogamic botany. Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1889.
    • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the class "Cyanobacteria". Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166. 🇺🇸
    • 🧕 Elenkin (1949) assigned this genus to the family Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. Publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh Cyanophyceae, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. (okonchaniye). Izdate'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moskva & Leningrad, 1949.
    • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. 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 Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. 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 Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. 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. 🇨🇿
    • 🧕 Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. 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. 🇨🇿
    • 🧒 Hansgirg (1888) assigned the subgenus "Dichothrix" to this genus. Publication: Hansgirg A. Synopsis generum subgenerumque Myxophycearum (Cyanophycearum) hucusque cognitorum cum descriptione generis nov. " Dactylococcopsis ". Notarisia 1888; 3:584-590.
    • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Aalothrix"; "Alothrix"; "Cabothrix"; "Caiothrix"; "Calathrix"; "Calcothrix"; "Calethrix"; "Callothrix"; "Calofhrix"; "Calolhrix"; "Calothilrx"; "Calothria"; "Calothricis"; "Calothris"; "Calothriz"; "Calothrlx"; "Calotlzrix"; "Caolothrix"; "Catlothrix"; "Catothrix"; "Ccdothrix"; "Ccilotkrix"; "Celothrix"; "Cfdothrix"; "Cnlothrix"; "Colothrix"; "Culothrix"; "Galothrix"; "Ialothrix"; "Jalothrix"; "Lalothrix"; "Oalothrix"; "Oulothrix"; "Qalothrix"; "Talothrix".
    • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: SP: 2; UPOC: 1; PCC: 1; CCALA: 1; BRNM: 1.
    • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "CATX" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 128
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 149
Total number of child taxa: 152

Parent taxon: Calotrichaceae corrig. Cooke 1890

Assigned by: Saraf A, Suradkar A, Dawda HG, Gaysina LA, Gabidullin Y, Kumat A, Behere I, Kotulkar M, Batule P, Singh P. Phylogenetic complexities of the members of Rivulariaceae with the re-creation of the family Calotrichaceae and description of Dulcicalothrix necridiiformans gen nov., sp nov., and reclassification of Calothrix desertica. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2019; 366:1-10. 🇮🇳

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Record number: 6412