Valid publication:
É. B, Flahault C. [Title pending]. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. 7 1886; 5:126.
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 Scytonemaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886.Publication:
Bornet É, 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.
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".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