Genus Fischerella

Name: Fischerella (Bornet and Flahault 1886) Gomont 1895

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. dim. n. Fischerella

Gender: feminine

Type species: Fischerella ambigua (Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Gomont 1895

Valid publication: Gomont MA. Note sur le Scytonema ambiguum Kützing. Journal de Botanique 1895; 9:49-52.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN

Taxonomic status: correct name

Notes:
- Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the class "Cyanobacteria". Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
- Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Stigonemataceae (Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Borzì 1892. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
- The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Scytonema Bornet and Flahault 1886. Publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (Troisième fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième série 1886; 5:51-129.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 5

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Fischerella ambigua (Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Gomont 1895	validly published under the ICN	correct name
Fischerella major Gomont 1898	validly published under the ICN	correct name
Fischerella muscicola Gomont 1895	validly published under the ICN	correct name
Fischerella thermalis Gomont 1895	validly published under the ICN	correct name
"Fischerella uthpalarensis" Pushpakumara and Gunawardana 2018	not validly published

Parent taxon: [Hapalosiphonaceae]

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Record number: 6472