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Genus Kuetzingina
Etymology: Kuet.zing.i’na. N.L. fem. n. Kuetzingina, named to honor Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German botanist
Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Kuetzingin-), ku͡et-zin͡g-I-na
Type species: Kuetzingina amoena (Kützing 1843) Kuntze 1898
Valid publication: Kuntze O. Revisio generum plantarum: vascularium omnium atque cellularium multarum secundum leges nomenclaturae internationales cum enumeratione plantarum exoticarum 3(2). A. Felix, Leipzig, 1898.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the family Homoeotrichaceae Elenkin 1949. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
- 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the subfamily "Homoeotrichoideae". Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Ruetzingina".
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 4
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Kuetzingina amethystea (Kützing 1847) Kuntze 1898 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Kuetzingina amoena (Kützing 1843) Kuntze 1898 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Kuetzingina scytonemoidea (Meneghini 1842) Kuntze 1898 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Kuetzingina villosa (Kützing 1845) Kuntze 1898 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name
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Parent taxon: Microcoleaceae (Hansgirg 1892) Strunecký et al. 2013
Assigned by:
Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612. 
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Record number: 18019
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