Name: Hydrocoleum Kützing ex Gomont 1892

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Hy.dro.co.le.um. Gr. neut. n. koleon, sheath; N.L. neut. n. Hydrocoleum

Gender: neuter (stem: Hydrocole-)

Type species: Hydrocoleum homoeotrichum Kützing ex Gomont 1892

Valid publication: Gomont M. Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées homocystées). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Série 7 1892; 15:263-368.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Geitler (1942) assigned this genus to the family Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898. Publication: Geitler L. Schizophyta: Klasse Schizophyceae. In: Engler A, Prantl K (eds), Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, Zweite Auflage. Vol. 1b, Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1942, p. 1-232.
  • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Phormidiaceae Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧕 Starmach (1966) assigned this genus to the family Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898. Publication: Starmach K. Cyanophyta-Sinice. Glaucophyta-Glaukofity. In: Starmach K (eds), Flora slodkowodna Polski. Band 2, Panstwowe Wydawnietwo Naukowe, Warszawa, 1966, p. 807.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Eydrocoleum"; "Hidrocoleus"; "Hyclrocoleum"; "Hyclroooleum"; "Hydracoleum"; "Hydrcccleum"; "Hydrecoleum"; "Hydrocaleum"; "Hydrocnleum"; "Hydrocolcum"; "Hydrocolem"; "Hydrocoteum"; "Hyprrocoleumm"; "Rydrocoleum".
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "HYCL" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 16
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 35
Total number of child taxa: 40

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Hydrocoleum boergesenii Gardner 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum brebissonii Kützing ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Hydrocoleum bremii Nägeli ex Forti 1907	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum cantharidosmum Gomont ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum cavanillesii Gonzalez Guerrero 1946	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Hydrocoleum coccineum Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum codicola Setchell and Gardner 1924	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Hydrocoleum coeruleum Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum comoides Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum confluens (Setchell and Gardner 1918) Drouet 1942	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum eatoni Reinsch ex Geitler 1932	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    "Hydrocoleum eatoni" Reinsch 1876	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)
    Hydrocoleum eatonii corrig. Reinsch ex Geitler 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Hydrocoleum floccosum Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Hydrocoleum fontanum Jao 1944	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum glutinosum Gomont ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum groesbeckianum Drouet 1943	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum heterotrichum Kützing ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum hieronymi Richter 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Hydrocoleum holdenii Tilden 1901	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum homoeotrichum Kützing ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Hydrocoleum jensenii" Weber-van Bosse ex Frémy 1928	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Hydrocoleum lauterbachii Hieronymus and Schmidle 1901	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum lyngbyaceum Kützing ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum majus Holden 1899	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum mirificum corrig. Jao 1948	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum muscicola corrig. Hansgirg 1891	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Hydrocoleum muscicolum Hansgirg 1891	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Hydrocoleum oligotrichum Braun ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum ravenelii Wolle ex Forti 1907	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Hydrocoleum rivularioides Hansgirg 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Hydrocoleum rufescens Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Hydrocoleum stankovici Čado 1958	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Hydrocoleum subcrustaceum Hansgirg 1891	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Hydrocoleum subhomoeotrichum Sampaio f. 1960	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Hydrocoleum tenuissimum Borzì 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Hydrocoleum terrestre corrig. Novichkova 1960	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Hydrocoleum terrestris Novichkova 1960	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Hydrocoleum turfosus Woronichin 1923	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Hydrocoleum turfosus Woronichin 1926	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym

Parent taxon: Microcoleaceae (Hansgirg 1892) Strunecký et al. 2013

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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