Name: Cyanotheca Pascher 1914

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Cy.a.no.the’ca. Gr. masc. n. kyanos, a blue dye; Gr. fem. n. thêkê, box, chest; N.L. fem. n. Cyanotheca, a blue chest

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Cyanothec-), ky-a-no-T^HE-ka

Type species: Cyanotheca longipes 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 Dermocarpaceae Geitler 1925. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧕 Hollerbach et al. (1953) assigned this genus to the family Dermocarpaceae Geitler 1925. Publication: Hollerbach MM, Kosinskaya EK, Polyansky VI. Sinezelenye vodorosli. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Opredelitel presnovodnykh vodoroslej SSSR, Sovetskaya Nauka, Moskva, 1953, p. 652.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Cyancthaca"; "Cyanetheea"; "Cyanoiheca"; "Cyanotheeca".
  • 🧍 According to Komarek and Golubic (1990) originally assigned to Cyanobacteria but probably belonging to Bacteria (Caulobacteriae); Claus (1961). Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Cyanotheca longipes Pascher 1914	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: [Bacteria, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 17831