Name: Herpyzonema Weber-Van Bosse 1913

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. neut. n. nêma, a thread; N.L. neut. n. Herpyzonema

Gender: neuter (stem: Herpyzonemat-)

Type species: Herpyzonema intermedium corrig. Weber-Van Bosse 1913

Valid publication: Weber-Van Bosse A. Liste de algues du Siboga. I. Myxophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Phaeophyceae avec le concours de M. Th. Reinbold. Vol. 59a. Unknown Publisher, Leiden, 1913.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Mastigocladaceae Geitler 1925. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Scytonemataceae corrig. Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. Publication: Strunecky O, Ivanova AP, Mares J. An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis. J Phycol 2022; 0:0.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Herpysonema"; "Zerpyzonema".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Herpyzonema intermedia Weber-Van Bosse 1913	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Herpyzonema intermedium corrig. Weber-Van Bosse 1913	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: "Symphyonemataceae" Hoffmann et al. 2005

Assigned by: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.

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Record number: 6515