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