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Genus Eucapsis
Name: Eucapsis Clements and Shantz 1909
Etymology: Eu.cap’sis. Gr. adv. eû, beautiful; Gr. fem. n. kapsis, a small box, referring to the cubical colony; N.L. fem. n. Eucapsis, a beautiful box-like organism
Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Eucaps-), e͡u-KAP-sis
Type species: Eucapsis alpina Clements and Shantz 1909
Valid publication: Clements FE, Shantz HL. A new genus of blue-green algae. Minnesota Botanical Studies 1909; 4:133-135.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
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🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Merismopediaceae Elenkin 1933.
Publication:
Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
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- 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Merismopediaceae Elenkin 1933. 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. 🇨🇿
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Bucapsis"; "Eacapsis"; "Eiicapsis"; "Encapsis"; "Euccpsis"; "Eueapsis"; "Ewucapsis"; "Iiucapsis".
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: SP: 1; TNS: 1.
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🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "EUCP" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer.
Publication:
Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 13
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 13
Total number of child taxa: 13
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Eucapsis alpina Clements and Shantz 1909 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Eucapsis aphanocapsoides (Skuja 1964) Komárek and Hindák 2016 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Eucapsis carpatica Komárek and Hindák 1989 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Eucapsis densa Azevedo et al. 2003 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Eucapsis himalayensis Watanabe and Komárek 1994 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Eucapsis joostenii Komárek and Hindák 2016 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Eucapsis microscopica (Komárková-Legnerová and Cronberg 1994) Komárek et al. 2016 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Eucapsis minuta Fritsch 1912 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Eucapsis parallelepipedon (Schmidle 1901) Komárek and Hindák 1989 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Eucapsis pseudalpina Komárek and Hindák 2016 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Eucapsis salina González Guerrero 1948 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Eucapsis starmachii Komárek and Hindák 1989 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Eucapsis terrestris Akiyama 1965 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name
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Parent taxon: Microcystaceae Elenkin 1933
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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