Name: "Iphinoe" Lamprinou and Pantazidou 2011

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. fem. n. Iphinoê, named after a Greek nymph inhabiting the cave ‘Kastria’ in Greek mythology

Gender: feminine (stem: Iphino-)

Type species: "Iphinoe spelaeobios" Lamprinou and Pantazidou 2011

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Lamprinou V, Hernandez-Marine M, Canals T, Kormas K, Economou-Amilli A, Pantazidou A. Morphology and molecular evaluation of Iphinoe spelaeobios gen. nov., sp. nov. and Loriellopsis cavernicola gen. nov., sp. nov., two stigonematalean cyanobacteria from Greek and Spanish caves. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2907-2915.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

• Notes:
  • 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.
  • Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the order Stigonematales (ex Geitler 1925) Cavalier-Smith 2002. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Ifinoe".
  • The authority of the taxon name (Lamprinou and Pantazidou) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Lamprinou et al.).
  • Full authorship: Lamprinou and Pantazidou.

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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Iphinoe spelaeobios" Lamprinou and Pantazidou 2011	not validly published

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: 6263