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Genus Kyrtuthrix
Name: Kyrtuthrix Ercegović 1929
Etymology: Kyr.tu’thrix. kyrtûn, plier; Gr. fem. n. thrix, poil; N.L. fem. n. Kyrtuthrix
Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Kyrtutrich-), kyr-TU-thrix
Type species: Kyrtuthrix dalmatica Ercegović 1929
Valid publication: Ercegović A. Sur quelques nouveaux types des Cyanophycées lithophytes de la cote adriatique. Archiv für Protistenkunde 1929; 66:164-174.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
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🧕 Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Rivulariaceae 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 2023; 59:12-51.
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Brachytrichia Zanardini ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. Publication: Frémy P. Cyanophycées des côtes d'Europe. Mémoires de la Société Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathématiques de Cherbourg 1934; 41:1-235.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Kyrluthrix".
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🧕 Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Rivulariaceae 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 2023; 59:12-51.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Kyrtuthrix dalmatica Ercegović 1929 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Kyrtuthrix huatulcensis León-Tejera et al. 2016 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Kyrtuthrix maculans (Gomont 1901) Umezaki 1958 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name
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Parent taxon: Scytonemataceae corrig. Frank 1886
Assigned by:
Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
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Record number: 6216
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