Name: Gomphosphaeria Kützing 1836

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. fem. n. sphaîra, ball, sphere; N.L. fem. n. Gomphosphaeria

Gender: feminine (stem: Gomphosphaeri-)

Type species: Gomphosphaeria aponina Kützing 1836

Valid publication: Kützing FT. Algarum aquae dulcis germanicarum Decas XVI. In commissis C.A. Schwetschkii et fil., Halis Saxonum [Halle], 1836.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Gomphosphaeriaceae Elenkin 1933. Publication: Elenkin AA. O sistematicheskom podrazdenii poryadka Chroococcales Geitler (1925). Trudy Botanicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Ser. 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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Gamphosphaeria"; "Gamphosphoeria"; "Gomphasphaeria"; "Gomphaspharia"; "Gomphaspheria"; "Gomphesphaeria"; "Gomphospaheria"; "Gomphosphacria"; "Gomphosphacxia"; "Gomphosphaena"; "Gomphosphaera"; "Gomphosphaerla"; "Gomphosphaewria"; "Gomphosphaoria"; "Gomphospharia"; "Gomphosphceria"; "Gomphospheeria"; "Gomphospheria"; "Gomphosphieria"; "Gomphosphoria"; "Gomphospliaeria"; "Gomphosplmeria"; "Gomposphaeria"; "Gonvphoephaeria"; "Goviphosphaeria"; "Gowphosphaeria"; "Gumphosphuaria"; "Mphosphaena"; "Oomphosphaeria"; "Timmphosphaeria".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 7
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 13
Total number of child taxa: 13

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Gomphosphaeria aponina Kützing 1836	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gomphosphaeria botrys Skuja 1964	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gomphosphaeria delicatula Skuja 1964	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gomphosphaeria fremyi Komárek 1984	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gomphosphaeria litoralis Häyrén 1921	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gomphosphaeria multiplex (Nygaard 1926) Komárek 1989	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gomphosphaeria natans Komárek and Hindák 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gomphosphaeria okavango Komárek and Cronberg 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gomphosphaeria robusta Skuja 1964	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gomphosphaeria salina Komárek and Hindák 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gomphosphaeria semenvitis Komárek 1989	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Gomphosphaeria tenera Skuja 1964	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Gomphosphaeria virieuxii Komárek and Hindák 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Gomphosphaeriaceae Elenkin 1933

Assigned by: Elenkin AA. O sistematicheskom podrazdenii poryadka Chroococcales Geitler (1925). Trudy Botanicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Series 2, Sporovye Rasteniya 1933; 1:17-21.

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Record number: 6506