Name: "Hormosiphon" Kützing 1843

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Hor.mo.si’phon. Gr. masc. n. hormos, chord; Gr. masc. n. siphôn, tube; N.L. masc. n. Hormosiphon, a cord-like tube

Gender: masculine (stem: Hormosiphon-)

Type species: "Hormosiphon furfuraceus" Kützing 1843

Original publication: Kützing FT. Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange. Mit 80 farbig gedruckten Tafeln, gezeichnet und gravirt vom Verfasser. F.A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1843.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 4

Parent taxon: Nostocaceae Eichler 1886

Assigned by: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.

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Record number: 18037
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