Name: Coelosphaerium Nägeli 1849

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Coe.lo.sphae.ri.um. N.L. neut. n. sphaerium; N.L. neut. n. Coelosphaerium

Gender: neuter (stem: Coelosphaeri-)

Type species: Coelosphaerium kuetzingianum Nägeli 1849

Valid publication: Nägeli C. Gattungen einzelliger Algen, physiologisch und systematisch bearbeitet. Neue Denkschriften der Allg. Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 1849; 10:1-139.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Coelosphaeriaceae Elenkin 1933. Publication: Elenkin AA. O sistematicheskom podrazdenii poryadka Chroococcales Geitler (1925). Trudy Botanicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Ser. 2, Sporovye Rasteniya 1933; 1:17-21.
  • 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, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Microcystaceae Elenkin 1933. 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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Caelosphacrium"; "Ccelosphaerium"; "Coclasphaerium"; "Coclosphaerium"; "Coelasphaerium"; "Coelesphacrium"; "Coelesphaerium"; "Coelosphacrium"; "Coelosphaenum"; "Coelosphaerinm"; "Coelospharium"; "Coelospheerium"; "Coelosphlaerium"; "Coelosphoerium"; "Coelosphserium"; "Coelospkaerium"; "Coetosphaerium"; "Coolasphaerium"; "Ooelogphaerium"; "Ooelosphacrium".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Coelosphaerium chlamydocystis Skuja 1964	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Coelosphaerium kuetzingianum Nägeli 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Coelosphaerium leloupii Kufferath 1950	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Coelosphaerium naegelianum Unger 1854	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Coelosphaerium pusillum Van Goor 1924	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym

Parent taxon: Coelosphaeriaceae Elenkin 1933

Assigned by: Elenkin AA. O sistematicheskom podrazdenii poryadka Chroococcales Geitler (1925). Trudy Botanicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Series 2, Sporovye Rasteniya 1933; 1:17-21.

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Record number: 6368