Name: Cyanothrix Schmidle 1897

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Cy.a.no’thrix. Gr. masc. n. kyanos, a blue dye; Gr. fem. n. thrix, hair; N.L. fem. n. Cyanothrix, a blue hair

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Cyanotrich-), ky-a-NO-t^hriks

Type species: Cyanothrix vaginata Schmidle 1897

Valid publication: Schmidle W. Algologische Notizen. III. Cyanothrix vaginata n.sp. et gen. All. bot. Ztschr. 1897; 3:37-41.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Mastigocladus Cohn ex Kirchner 1898

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Mastigocladus Cohn ex Kirchner 1898	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    "Mastigocladus" Cohn 1863	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Gardner (1927) assigned this genus to the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. Publication: Gardner NL. New Myxophyceae from Porto Rico. Mem. N.Y. Bot. Garden 1927; 7:65.
  • 🧕 Kisselew (1947) assigned this genus to the family Cyanotrichaceae corrig. Kisselew 1947. Publication: Kisselew IA. K morfologii, ekologii, sistematike I geografischeskomu rasprostraneniyu sinezelenoj vodorosli Cyanothrix gardneri (Fremy). I. Kissel. Ampl. I. Kissel. Bot. Zhurn. SSSR 1947; 32:111-118.
  • 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the family Mastigocladaceae Geitler 1925. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Mastigocladus Cohn ex Kirchner 1898. Publication: Kirchner O. Schizophyceae. In: A. Engler KP (eds), Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien. I. Teil, Abt. 1a, Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1898, p. 45-92.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Cvanothrix"; "Oyanothrix".
  • 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of Cyanothrix Gardner 1927.
  • ❗ Cyanothrix 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: 4
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Cyanothrix cavanillesii González Guerrero 1946	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	orphaned species
    Cyanothrix fusca (Taylor 1928) Frémy 1935	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Cyanothrix gardneri (Frémy 1935) Kisselew 1947	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	orphaned species
    Cyanothrix vaginata Schmidle 1897	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym

Parent taxon: Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916

Assigned by: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 18097