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Name: Coccopedia Troitzkaja 1922

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Coc.co.pe’di.a. Gr. masc. n. kokkos, grain, seed; Gr. neut. n. pedion, a plain, a flat area; N.L. fem. n. Coccopedia, a plain of cocci

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Coccopedi-), kok-ko-PE-di-a

Type species: Coccopedia limnetica Troitzkaja 1922

Valid publication: Troitzkaja OV. De novi genere Chroococcacearum. Botaniceskie Materialy Instituta Sporovyh Rastenij Glavnogo Botaniceskogo Sada RSFSR. Notulae Systematicae ex Instituto Cryptogamico Horti Botanici Petropolitani Reipublicae Rossicae 1922; 1:129-131.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

  • Notes:
    • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. 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 Merismopediaceae Elenkin 1933. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kastovsky J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) - state in 2004. Algological Studies 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
    • 🧕 Komarek and Anagnostidis (1986) assigned this genus to the subfamily "Merismopedioideae". Publication: Komárek J, Anagnostidis K. Modern approach to the classification system of cyanophytes, 2 - Chroococcales. Algological Studies/Archiv für Hydrobiologie 1986; 43:157-226.
    • 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Merismopediaceae 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. 🇨🇿
    • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Coccopedium"; "Coecopedia"; "Goccopedia"; "Ioccopedia"; "Joccopedia".

Subdivision:

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

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: 6466