Name: Homoeoptyche Skuja 1944

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ho.moe.o’pty.che. Gr. masc. adj. homoios, resembling; Gr. fem. n. ptychê, fold, plate; N.L. fem. n. Homoeoptyche, an organism resembling a plate

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Homoeoptych-), ho-mo͡e-O-pty-k^he

Type species: Homoeoptyche repens Skuja 1944

Valid publication: Skuja H. Untersuchungen über die Rhodophyceen des Süsswassers (VII-XII). Acta Horti Bot Univ Lat 1944; 14:3-64.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Thackerella Bharadwaja 1963	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Subdivision:

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Homoeoptyche indica (Bharadwaja 1963) Bourrelly 1970	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Homoeoptyche repens Skuja 1944	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Stigonemataceae corrig. (Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Borzì 1892

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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Record number: 6514