Name: Colteronema Copeland 1936

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Colteronema, the genus has been named in honor of John Colter, the first white man to enter the Yellowstone

Gender: neuter (stem: Colteronemat-)

Type species: Colteronema funebre Copeland 1936

Valid publication: Copeland JJ. Yellowstone thermal Myxophyceae. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1936; 36:1-232.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

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

Parent taxon: Scytonemataceae corrig. Frank 1886

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: 6193
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