Name: Coccopedia Troitzkaja 1922

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Coc.co.pe.di.a. N.L. fem. n. pedia; N.L. fem. n. Coccopedia

Gender: feminine (stem: Coccopedi-)

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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Coccopedium"; "Ioccopedia"; "Joccopedia".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Coccopedia limnetica Troitzkaja 1922	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Merismopediaceae Elenkin 1933

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: 6466