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Name: "Gliothrix" Zopf 1882

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Gli’o.thrix. Gr. fem. n. glia, glue; Gr. fem. n. thrix, a hair; N.L. fem. n. Gliothrix, a gelatinous thread

Gender: feminine (stem: Gliotrich-)

Type species: "Gliothrix tenerrima" Zopf 1882

Original publication: Zopf W. Zur Morphologie der Spaltpflanzen (Spaltpilze und Spaltalgen). VEIT & COMP., Leipzig, 1882.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

  • Notes:
    • 🧕 Zopf (1882) assigned this genus to the class "Cyanophyceae". Publication: Zopf W. Zur Morphologie der Spaltpflanzen (Spaltpilze und Spaltalgen). VEIT & COMP., Leipzig, 1882.
    • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Goliothrix".
    • 🧍 According to Komarek and Golubic (1990) originally assigned to Cyanobacteria but probably mixture of different cyanophytes. Publication: Komárek J, Golubić S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Published by the Authors, Třeboň and Boston, 1990.

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: [Chroococcophyceae, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 17885