Name: Gloeocapsa Kützing 1843

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gloe.o.cap’sa. L. fem. n. capsa, box; N.L. fem. n. Gloeocapsa, a sticky box

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Gloeocaps-), glo͡e-o-KAP-sa

Type species: Gloeocapsa atrata Kützing 1843

Valid publication: Kützing FT. Phycologia generalis, oder, Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange. F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1843.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Monocapsa Itzigsohn 1853	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Gloeocapsaceae Elenkin 1933. Publication: Elenkin AA. O sistematicheskom podrazdenii poryadka Chroococcales Geitler (1925). Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. 2, Sporov. Rast. 1933; 1:17-21.
  • 🧕 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.
  • 🧕 Elenkin (1933) assigned this genus to the family Gloeocapsaceae Elenkin 1933. Publication: Elenkin AA. O sistematicheskom podrazdenii poryadka Chroococcales Geitler (1925). Trudy Botanicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Series 2, Sporovye Rasteniya 1933; 1:17-21.
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the order Chroococcales corrig. Ardissone 1886. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Microcystaceae Elenkin 1933. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🧕 Rabenhorst (1863) assigned this genus to the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. Publication: Rabenhorst L. Kryptogamen-Flora von Sachsen, Ober-Lausitz, Thüringen und Nord-Böhmen, mit Berücksichtigung der benachbarten Länder: erste Abtheilung: Algen im weitesten Sinne, Leber und Laubmoose. Verlag von Eduard Kummer, Leipzig, 1863.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Cloeocapsa"; "Eloeocapsa"; "Gbeocapsa"; "Gioeocapsa"; "Gkaocapsa"; "Gkeocapsa"; "Glaaocafma"; "Glacacapsa"; "Glaeacapsa"; "Glaecapsa"; "Glaeocapsa"; "Glaocapsa"; "Glceocapsa"; "Glceoeapsa"; "Gleeocapsa"; "Gleeocopsa"; "Gleocapsa"; "Glmocapsa"; "Gloaocapsa"; "Gloccapsa"; "Glococapsa"; "Glococaywa"; "Glocoeapsa"; "Gloeacapsa"; "Gloebcapsa"; "Gloecapsa"; "Gloeccapsa"; "Gloecocapsa"; "Gloeecapsa"; "Gloeecepsa"; "Gloeeocapsa"; "Gloencapsa"; "Gloeocagsa"; "Gloeocama"; "Gloeocansa"; "Gloeocaosa"; "Gloeocapaa"; "Gloeocapca"; "Gloeocapea"; "Gloeocapfsa"; "Gloeocapla"; "Gloeocapra"; "Gloeocaspa"; "Gloeoceapsa"; "Gloeocepsa"; "Gloeocopsa"; "Gloeocpsa"; "Gloeocupsa"; "Gloeoeapsa"; "Gloeooapsa"; "Gloeorapsa"; "Gloeosapsa"; "Gloescapsa"; "Gloevcapsa"; "Glogocapsa"; "Glogsocapsa"; "Gloiocapsa"; "Glomcapsa"; "Gloocapsa"; "Glorocapsa"; "Glosecapsa"; "Glosocapsa"; "Glotocapsa"; "Glowcapsa"; "Glseocapsa"; "Glucocapsa"; "Glueocapsa"; "Glwocapsa"; "Goeocapsa"; "Gteocapsa"; "Gtoeocapsa"; "Hoeocapsa"; "Oloeocapsa"; "Siceocapsa".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: LEGE: 1; BRNM: 1; CCAP: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "GLCP" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.
  • 🧍 See also Elenkin (1923), who proposed the same name again without a change of rank but referred to Kützing 1843 as authority in parentheses. Publication: Elenkin AA. Schema Chroococcacearum classificationis. Botanicheskie materialy Instituta Sporovykh Rastenii Glavnogo Botanicheskogo Sada RSFSR 1923; 2(1–12):65-69.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 102
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 129
Total number of child taxa: 134

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Gloeocapsa acervata Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa aeruginosa Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa africana Cholnoky 1952	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa alpicola (Lyngbye 1819) Bornet 1903	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa alpina Nägeli 1865	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Gloeocapsa alpina Nägeli ex Cramer 1859	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa ambigua Nägeli ex Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa ampla Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Gloeocapsa arboriformis" Kaštovský et al. 2011	not validly published	preferred name
    Gloeocapsa arenaria (Hassall 1845) Rabenhorst 1865	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa atrata Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa atrovirens (Corda 1833) Dalla Torre and Sarnthein 1901	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa attingens Schiller 1954	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa aurata Stizenberger 1857	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa bahamensis Collins 1920	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa biformis Ercegović 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa bituminosa (Bory 1849) Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa botryoides Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa calcarea Tilden 1898	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa calcicola Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa caldarii Suringar 1857	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa caldariorum Rabenhorst 1865	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa cartilaginea Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa chroococcoides Nováček 1934	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gloeocapsa chrysophthalma (Montagne 1849) Montagne 1856	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Gloeocapsa coccinea" Ehrenberg 1858	not validly published	preferred name
    Gloeocapsa cohaerens (Brébisson 1843) Hollerbach 1936	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa compacta Kützing 1847	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa confluens Kützing 1846	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gloeocapsa conglomerata Kützing 1846	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa coracina Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa cordae Guiry 2017	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa crepidinum (Thuret 1854) Thuret 1876	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gloeocapsa cryptococca Kützing 1846	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa cryptococcoides Kützing 1846	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gloeocapsa cyanea Krieger 1944	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa decorticans (Braun 1850) Richter 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa dermochroa Nägeli ex Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gloeocapsa dermochroa Nägeli 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Gloeocapsa deusta (Meneghini 1841) Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gloeocapsa didyma (Kützing 1843) Kützing 1846	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa dirumpens Beck-Mannagetta 1929	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa dubia Wartmann 1861	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa dvoraki Nováček 1929	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Gloeocapsa dvorakii corrig. Nováček 1929	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gloeocapsa fenestralis Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa fulva Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa fuscolutea (Nägeli 1849) Kirchner 1878	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name, later homonym	synonym
    Gloeocapsa fuscolutea Nägeli ex Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa gelatinosa Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa geminata Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa gigas West and West 1894	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa granosa (Berkeley 1847) Kützing 1847	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa haematodes (Kützing 1846) Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa helvetica (Nägeli 1849) Starmach 1966	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa holstii Hieronymus 1895	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa ianthina Nägeli ex Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa insignis Thuret 1854	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa juliana (Meneghini 1841) Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa kalchbrenneri Grunow 1865	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa kuetzingiana Nägeli 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Gloeocapsa kuetzingiana Nägeli ex Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa lacustris Huber-Pestalozzi 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa lignicola Rabenhorst 1865	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Gloeocapsa livida (Carmichael 1833) Kützing 1847	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa luteofusca Martens 1871	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa magma (Brébisson 1835) Kützing 1847	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa mellea (Meneghini 1842) Kützing 1847	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gloeocapsa membranina (Meneghini 1843) Drouet and Daily 1948	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa microcosmus Roemer 1845	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa microphthalma Kützing 1847	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa minor (Kützing 1845) Hollerbach 1936	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa minuta (Kützing 1843) Hollerbach 1936	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa minutula Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa monococca Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gloeocapsa montana Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa montana (Lightfoot 1777) Wille 1919	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name, later homonym	synonym
    Gloeocapsa multispherica Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa muralis Kützing 1847	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa myxophila Beck-Mannagetta 1931	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa nigra (Meneghini 1842) Grunow 1865	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa nigrescens Nägeli 1865	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Gloeocapsa novacekii Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa ocellata Rabenhorst 1863	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa opaca Nägeli ex Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    "Gloeocapsa opaca" Nägeli 1849	not validly published	synonym
    Gloeocapsa ovalis Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa palea Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    "Gloeocapsa palmelloides" Rabenhorst 1856	not validly published	preferred name
    Gloeocapsa peniocystis Kützing 1847	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa planctonica McGregor 2007	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa pleurocapsoides Nováček 1934	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gloeocapsa polydermatica Kützing 1846	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa polyzonia Perty 1848	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa punctata Nägeli ex Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gloeocapsa punctata Nägeli 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Gloeocapsa purpurea Kützing 1847	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa quaternaria Geitler 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa quaternata Kützing 1846	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa ralfsiana Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa ralfsii (Harvey 1841) Lemmermann 1907	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa reicheltii Richter 1895	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa romana Montagne 1856	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa rosea Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa rubicunda Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa rupestris Kützing 1847	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa rupicola Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa sabulosa (Meneghini ex Kützing 1846) Richter 1884	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa salina Roemer 1845	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa salina Hansgirg 1885	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name, later homonym	in need of a replacement
    Gloeocapsa sanguinea (Agardh 1827) Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa sanguinolenta Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa scopulorum Nägeli 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa scopulorum Nägeli ex Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Gloeocapsa shuttleworthiana Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa sibogae Weber-Van Bosse 1913	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa sparsa Wood 1869	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa sphaerica Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa squamulosa Brébisson ex Kützing 1847	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa stegophila (Itzigsohn 1853) Rabenhorst 1863	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa stillicidiorum Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa tepidariorum Braun 1865	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gloeocapsa thermalis Lemmermann 1905	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name, later homonym	in need of a replacement
    Gloeocapsa thermalis Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa thermophila (Wood 1868) Claus 1959	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa titiana Grunow 1865	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa tornensis Skuja 1964	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa turgida (Kützing 1846) Hollerbach 1936	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa uvaeformis Roemer 1845	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa versicolor Nägeli ex Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa violacea Kützing 1847	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa violacea (Corda 1829) Rabenhorst 1865	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name, later homonym	in need of a replacement
    Gloeocapsa zanardinii Hauck 1877	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gloeocapsa zostericola Farlow 1882	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Chroococcidiopsidaceae Geitler ex Büdel et al. 2012

Assigned by: Strunecky O, Ivanova AP, Mares J. An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis. J Phycol 2023; 59:12-51.

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