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

Gender: feminine (stem: Gloeocaps-)

Type species: Gloeocapsa gelatinosa 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

• 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.
  • 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Chroococcidiopsidaceae Komárek et al. 2014. Publication: 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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Eloeocapsa"; "Gbeocapsa"; "Gioeocapsa"; "Gkaocapsa"; "Gkeocapsa"; "Glaaocafma"; "Glacacapsa"; "Glaeacapsa"; "Glaecapsa"; "Glaeocapsa"; "Glaocapsa"; "Glceocapsa"; "Gleeocapsa"; "Gleocapsa"; "Glmocapsa"; "Gloaocapsa"; "Gloccapsa"; "Glococapsa"; "Glococaywa"; "Glocoeapsa"; "Gloeacapsa"; "Gloecapsa"; "Gloecocapsa"; "Gloeecapsa"; "Gloencapsa"; "Gloeocama"; "Gloeocansa"; "Gloeocaosa"; "Gloeocapaa"; "Gloeocapfsa"; "Gloeocapla"; "Gloeocapra"; "Gloeocaspa"; "Gloeocpsa"; "Gloeocupsa"; "Gloeooapsa"; "Gloeorapsa"; "Gloiocapsa"; "Glomcapsa"; "Glowcapsa"; "Glseocapsa"; "Glucocapsa"; "Glueocapsa"; "Glwocapsa"; "Gteocapsa"; "Gtoeocapsa"; "Hoeocapsa"; "Oloeocapsa"; "Siceocapsa".
  • 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.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 28
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 32
Total number of child taxa: 33

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Gloeocapsa acervata Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa alpina Nägeli 1865	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa ampla Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Gloeocapsa arboriformis" Kastovsky et al. 2011	not validly published	preferred name (not 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 botryoides Kützing 1843	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 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 cyanea Krieger 1944	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa dvorakii Nováček 1929	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gloeocapsa gelatinosa Kützing 1843	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 minutula Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa monococca Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa montana Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa multispherica Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa nigrescens Nägeli 1865	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa novacekii Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa ovalis Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa peniocystis Kützing 1847	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    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 quaternata Kützing 1846	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 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 sphaerica Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa stillicidiorum Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gloeocapsa thermalis Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863

Assigned by: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.

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Record number: 6259