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Name: "Elisa" Gray 1821

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: E.li’sa. L. fem. n. Elisa, name of unknown origin

Gender: feminine (stem: Elis-)

Type species: "Elisa majuscula" Gray 1821

Original publication: Gray SF. A natural arrangement of British plants. Baldwin, Cradock, Joy & Paternoster-Row, London, 1821.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

  • Notes:
    • 🧕 Gray (1821) assigned this genus to the class "Cyanophyceae". Publication: Gray SF. A natural arrangement of British plants. Baldwin, Cradock, Joy & Paternoster-Row, London, 1821.
    • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Elisia".
    • 💥 This name is a homonym of Elisa Heynemann, 1883 (zoological) [from Catalogue of Life].
    • 🧍 According to Komarek and Golubic (1990) originally assigned to Cyanobacteria but probably mixture of filamentous cyanophytes and algae. 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: 0
Total number of child taxa: 5

Parent taxon: [Chroococcophyceae, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 17992