Name: Desmosiphon Borzì 1907

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Des.mo.si’phon. Gr. masc. n. desmos, rope; Gr. masc. n. siphôn, tube; N.L. masc. n. Desmosiphon, a rope-like tube

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Desmosiphon-), des-mo-SI-p^hon

Type species: Desmosiphon maculans Borzì 1916

Valid publication: Borzì A. I generi delle Stigonemacee. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Atti del Congresso dei naturalisti italiani - promosso dalla Società italiana di scienze naturali, Milano, 15-19 settembre 1906. Società italiana di scienze naturali, Tipografia degli operai, Milano [Milan], 1907, p. 370-375.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Elenkin (1949) assigned this genus to the family "Pseudocapsosiraceae" Elenkin 1935. Publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh S'yanofiseaye, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. (okonchaniye). Izdate'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 1949.
  • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Stigonemataceae corrig. (Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Borzì 1892. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Desmosiphon incrustans" (Geitler 1933) Bourrelly 1970	not validly published	synonym
    Desmosiphon maculans Borzì 1916	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), lectotype	correct name
    Desmosiphon neocaledonica Bourrelly 1984	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Desmosiphon neocaledonicus corrig. Bourrelly 1984	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Desmosiphon violaceus Bourrelly 1984	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Capsosiraceae Geitler 1925

Assigned by: Strunecky O, Ivanova AP, Mares J. An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis. J Phycol 2023; 59:12-51. 🇨🇿

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Record number: 6487