Name: "Geocyclus" Kützing 1843

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ge.o.cy’clus. Gr. fem. n. , the earth; L. masc. n. cyclus, a circle; N.L. masc. n. Geocyclus, circle from the earth

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Geocycl-), ge-o-KY-klus

Type species: "Geocyclus oscillarinus" Kützing 1843

Original publication: Kützing FT. Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange. Mit 80 farbig gedruckten Tafeln, gezeichnet und gravirt vom Verfasser. F.A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1843.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

Parent taxon: Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Assigned by: Komárek J, Golubić S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Published by the Authors, Třeboň and Boston, 1990.

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Record number: 18043

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