Name: Cyanodictyon Pascher 1914

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Cy.a.no.dic’ty.on. Gr. masc. n. kyanos, a blue dye; Gr. neut. n. diktyon, a net; N.L. neut. n. Cyanodictyon, a blue net

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Cyanodicty-), ky-a-no-DIK-ty-on

Type species: Cyanodictyon endophyticum Pascher 1914

Valid publication: Pascher A. Über Symbiosen von Spaltpilzen und Flagellaten mit Blaualgen. Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 1914; 32:339-352.

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 Synechococcaceae Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Synechococcaceae Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995. 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: "Cyanadictyon".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 9
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 9
Total number of child taxa: 11

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Cyanodictyon balticum Cronberg 2003	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanodictyon endophyticum Pascher 1914	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanodictyon filiforme Komárková-Legnerová and Cronberg 1994	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanodictyon iac Cronberg and Komárek 1994	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanodictyon imperfectum Cronberg and Weibull 1981	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Cyanodictyon planctonicum" Hickel 1994	not validly published	preferred name
    Cyanodictyon reticulatum (Lemmermann 1898) Geitler 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanodictyon tropicale corrig. Senna et al. 1999	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanodictyon tropicalis Senna et al. 1999	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Cyanodictyon tubiforme Cronberg 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanodictyon turfosum Lederer 1995	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Cymatolegaceae Strunecký and Mareš 2023

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: 6288