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Genus Iyengariella
Name: Iyengariella Desikachary 1953
Etymology: I.yeng.a.ri.el’la. N.L. fem. dim. n. Iyengariella, named to honor Mandayam Osuri Parthasarathy Iyengar, Indian phycologist
Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Iyengariell-), i-yen͡g-a-ri-EL-la
Type species: Iyengariella tirupatiensis Desikachary 1953
Valid publication: Desikachary TV. Iyengariella tirupatiensis gen. et sp. nov. from South India. Phytomorphology 1953; 3:249-253.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the class "Cyanobacteria". Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
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🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family "Symphyonemataceae" Hoffmann et al. 2005.
Publication:
Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
- 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family "Symphyonemataceae" Hoffmann et al. 2005. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Jyengariella"; "Tyengariella".
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
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Iyengariella endolithica Seeler and Golubić 1991 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Iyengariella tirupatiensis Desikachary 1953 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name
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Parent taxon: Scytonemataceae corrig. Frank 1886
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: 6425
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