Name: Entophysalis Kützing 1843

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. fem. n. physalis; N.L. fem. n. Entophysalis

Gender: feminine (stem: Entophysalid-)

Type species: Entophysalis granulosa Kützing 1843

Valid publication: Kützing FT. Phycologia generalis, oder, Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange. F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1843.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Entophysalidaceae Geitler 1925. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. Publication: 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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Eltophysalis"; "Enfophysalis"; "Eniophysalis"; "Enlophysalis"; "Entaphysalis"; "Enthophysalis"; "Entopbysalis"; "Entophysatis"; "Entopllyszilis"; "Entoplzysalis"; "Intophysalis".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 7
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 7

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Entophysalis arboriformis Kaštovský et al. 2011	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Entophysalis atroviolacea Nováček 1934	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Entophysalis conferta (Kützing 1845) Drouet and Daily 1948	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Entophysalis deusta (Meneghini 1841) Drouet and Daily 1948	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Entophysalis granulosa Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Entophysalis marginalis Hollenberg 1939	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Entophysalis weningeri Bourrelly 1984	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Entophysalidaceae Geitler 1925

Assigned by: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.

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Record number: 6260