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Genus "Eleutheronema"
Name: "Eleutheronema" Weber van Bosse 1914
Etymology: E.leu.the.ro.ne’ma. Gr. masc. adj. eleutheros, free; Gr. neut. n. nêma, thread; N.L. neut. n. Eleutheronema, a free thread
Gender: neuter (stem: Eleutheronemat-)
Original publication: Borzì A. Studi sulle Mixoficee. I. Cenni generali - Systema Myxophycearum. Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano Ser 2 1914; 21:307-360.
Nomenclatural status: not validly published
Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)
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Notes:
- 🧕 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.
- 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family "Symphyonemataceae" Hoffmann et al. 2005. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
- 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
- ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Weber van Bosse) deliberately differs from the author of the publication (Borzi).
- 🧍 Komarek and Golubic (1990) regard this name as a nomen nudum. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
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: 17932
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