Name: Gloeocapsomorpha Zalesskij 1918

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gloe.o.cap.so.mor’pha. N.L. fem. n. Gloeocapsa, a cyanobacterial genus; Gr. fem. n. morphê, shape; N.L. fem. n. Gloeocapsomorpha, an organism shaped like Gloeocapsa

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Gloeocapsomorph-), glo͡e-o-kap-so-MOR-pha

Type species: Gloeocapsomorpha prisca Zalesskij 1918

Valid publication: Zalesskij MD. Sur le sapropélite marin de l’âge silurien formé par une algue cyanophycée. Ezeg. Russk. Paleontol. Obšč. 1918; 1:25-42.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

Parent taxon: [Chroococcophyceae, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 17882
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