Name: Coleodesmium Borzì ex Geitler 1942

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Co.le.o.des’mi.um. Gr. masc. n. koleos, sheath; Gr. masc. n. desmos, bundle; N.L. neut. n. Coleodesmium, a sheathed bundlei

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Coleodesmi-), ko-le-o-DES-mi-um

Type species: Coleodesmium wrangelii Borzì ex Geitler 1942

Valid publication: Geitler L. Schizophyta: Klasse Schizophyceae. In: A. Engler KP (eds), Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, zweite Auflage, Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1942, p. 1-232.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Microchaetaceae Lemmermann 1907. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
  • 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the subfamily Tolypotrichoideae Komárek and Anagnostidis 1989. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Coelodesmium"; "Coleodesmum".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 7

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Coleodesmium floccosum (Bornet and Flahault 1886) Geitler 1942	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Coleodesmium kerguelensis" Thérézien and Couté 1977	not validly published	preferred name
    Coleodesmium lievreae (Frémy 1935) Geitler 1942	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Coleodesmium scottianum Welsh 1965	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Coleodesmium swazilandicum Welsh 1962	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Coleodesmium wrangelii" Borzì 1879	not validly published	synonym
    Coleodesmium wrangelii Borzì ex Geitler 1942	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Tolypotrichaceae corrig. Hauer et al. 2014

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: 6498