Genus Cyanothrix

Name: Cyanothrix Gardner 1927

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Cy.a’no.thrix. N.L. fem. n. Cyanothrix, a blue hair

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Cyanotrich-), ky-A-no-t^hrix

Type species: Cyanothrix primaria Gardner 1927

Valid publication: Gardner NL. New Myxophyceae from Porto Rico. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 1927; 7:1-144.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name, later homonym

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Johannesbaptistia De Toni f. 1934

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Johannesbaptistia De Toni f. 1934	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Heterohormogonium Copeland 1936	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of 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.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Cyanothrichaceae 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.
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Johannesbaptistia De Toni f. 1934. Publication: Drouet F. Notes on Myxophyceae. I - IV. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 1938; 65:285-292.
  • 🙄 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 Schmidle 1897.
  • 🧍 Illegitimate according to Komarek and Golubic (1990), who regard this name as a later homonym. 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.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Cyanothrix primaria Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Cyanothrix willei Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym

Parent taxon: Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Drouet F, Daily WA. Revision of the coccoid Myxophyceae. Butler University Botanical Studies 1956; 12:89.

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Record number: 9719