Name: Garwoodia Wood 1941

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Garwoodia, in recognition of Professor Garwood's admirable work on the fossil calcareous algae

Gender: feminine (stem: Garwoodi-)

Type species: Garwoodia gregaria (Nicholson 1888) Wood 1941

Valid publication: Wood A. The Lower Carboniferous calcareous algae Mitcheldeania Wethered and Garwoodia gen. nov. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 1941; 52:216-226.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Mitcheldeania Wethered 1886. Publication: Nicholson HA. On certain anomalous Organisms which are concerned in the Formation of some Paaeozoic Limestones. Geological Magazine 1888; 25:15-24.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Caruroodia".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Garwoodia bardosi Dragastan 1985	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Garwoodia fluegeli Dragastan 1985	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Garwoodia fluegelii corrig. Dragastan 1985	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Garwoodia gregaria (Nicholson 1888) Wood 1941	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: [Garwoodiaceae]

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Record number: 39577