Genus Endospora

Name: Endospora Gardner 1927

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Endospora

Gender: feminine (stem: Endospor-)

Type species: Endospora rubra Gardner 1927

Valid publication: Gardner NL. New Myxophyceae from Porto Rico. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 1927; 7:1-144.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

Notes:
- 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the order Chroococcales Schaffner 1922. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Myxosarcina Printz 1921. Publication: Bourrelly P. Les algues d'eau douce. Initiation à la systématique. Tome III: Les Algues bleues et rouges. Les Eugléniens, Peridiniens et Cryptomonadines. Boubée & Cie, Paris, 1970.

Subdivision:

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

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Endospora bicoccus Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
Endospora mellea Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
Endospora nigra Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
Endospora olivacea Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
Endospora rubra Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863

Assigned by: Gardner NL. New Myxophyceae from Porto Rico. Mem. N.Y. Bot. Garden 1927; 7:65.

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Record number: 17891

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