Genus Kyrtuthrix

Name: Kyrtuthrix Ercegović 1929

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: kyrtûn, plier; Gr. fem. n. thrix, poil; N.L. fem. n. Kyrtuthrix

Gender: feminine (stem: Kyrtutrich-)

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

Notes:
- 🧕 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.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Kyrluthrix".

Subdivision:

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

Child taxa:

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

Parent taxon: Scytonemataceae 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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