Genus Cyanogastrum

Name: Cyanogastrum Schiller 1956

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Cy.a.no.gas’trum. Gr. masc. n. kyanos, a blue dye; Gr. fem. n. gastêr, belly; N.L. neut. n. Cyanogastrum, probably meaning a blue belly

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Cyanogastr-), ky-a-no-GAS-trum

Type species: Cyanogastrum variabile Schiller 1956

Valid publication: Schiller J. Die Mikroflora der Roten Tümpel auf den Koralleninseln Los Aves im karibischen Meer. In: Gessner F, Vareschi V (eds), Ergebnisse der deutschen limnologischen Venezuela-Expedition 1952. Bd 1, Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1956, p. 197-216.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Aphanothece Nägeli 1849

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Coccochloris Sprengel 1807	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), rejected name
Phylloderma Suringar 1872	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Aphanothece Nägeli 1849	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), conserved name
Coccochloris Sprengel 1827	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), rejected name, later homonym

Notes:
- 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the subfamily "Aphanothecoideae". Publication: Komárek J, Golubić S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Published by the Authors, Třeboň and Boston, 1990.
- 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Aphanothecaceae (Komárek and Anagnostidis 1986) Komárek et al. 2014. 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. 🇨🇿
- 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Aphanothece Nägeli 1849. Publication: Komárek J. Studies on the cyanophytes (cyanoprokaryotes) of Cuba 10. New and little known chroococcalean species. Folia Geobot. et Phytotax. 1995; 30:81-90.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Cyanogastmm".
- ❗ Cyanogastrum is the correct name instead if this genus is regarded as a separate genus (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another genus whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
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
Cyanogastrum variabile Schiller 1956	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym

Parent taxon: Microcystaceae Elenkin 1933

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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Genus Cyanogastrum