Name: Desmonema Berkeley and Thwaites ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Desmonema

Gender: neuter (stem: Desmonemat-)

Type species: Desmonema dillwynii Berkeley and Thwaites ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Valid publication: Bornet E, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (Troisième fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième série 1886; 5:51-129.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family "Desmonemataceae" Kondratyeva 1968. Publication: Kondratyeva NV. Sino-zeleni vodorosti-Cyanophyta [Blue-green algae - Cyanophyta]. In Viznanik prisnovodnych Vodorostej Ukrajinskoj RSR. Vol. 1(2). Naukova dumka, Kiev, 1968.
  • Bornet and Flahault (1886) assigned this genus to the family Scytonemataceae corrig. Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. Publication: Bornet, Flahault, C.h.m. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. ser. 7 1886; 5:117.
  • Elenkin (1949) assigned this genus to the family Hydrocorynaceae Elenkin 1949. Publication: Elenkin AA. Monographia algarum Cyanophycearum aquidulcium et terrestrium in finibus URSS inventarum, Pars specialis (Systematica), Fasc. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. Sumptibus Academiae Scientarum URSS, Mosqua & Leningrad, 1949.
  • Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Microchaetaceae Lemmermann 1907. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the subfamily Tolypotrichoideae Komárek and Anagnostidis 1989. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Desmanema"; "Desnionema".
  • Komarek and Golubic (1990) regard this name as a later homonym. 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
    Desmonema dillwynii Berkeley and Thwaites ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Tolypotrichaceae corrig. Hauer et al. 2014

Assigned by: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.

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