Name: Leptobasis Elenkin 1915

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Lep.to’ba.sis. Gr. masc. adj. leptos, thin, fine, narrow; Gr. fem. n. basis, base; N.L. fem. n. Leptobasis, a narrow basis

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Leptobas-), lep-TO-ba-sis

Type species: Leptobasis caucasica Elenkin 1915

Valid publication: Elenkin AA. O novoj sine-zelenoj vodorosli Leptobasis caucasica mihi (nov. gen. et sp.) v svjazi s kriticeskim issledovaniem vidov roda Microchaete Thur. Izv. Bot. sada Petra Velikogo 1915; 15:5-22.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: synonym

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Leptobasaceae Elenkin 1917. Publication: Elenkin AA. Ob izmenenii printsipov klassifikatsi poryadka Hormogoneae (Thur.) Kirchn. V klasse sinezelenykh vodoroslej. Zhurn. Russk. Bot. Obshch. 1917; 1:147-165.
  • 🧕 Elenkin (1917) assigned this genus to the family Leptobasaceae Elenkin 1917. Publication: Elenkin AA. Ob izmenenii printsipov klassifikatsi poryadka Hormogoneae (Thur.) Kirchn. V klasse sinezelenykh vodoroslej. Zhurn. Russk. Bot. Obshch. 1917; 1:147-165.
  • 🧕 Elenkin (1949) assigned this genus to the family Leptobasaceae Elenkin 1917. Publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh S'yanofiseaye, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. (okonchaniye). Izdate'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 1949.
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Microchaetaceae Lemmermann 1907. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the family Microchaetaceae Lemmermann 1907. 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 Microchaetoideae Komárek and Anagnostidis 1989. 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: "Lemobasis"; "Lepfobasis"; "Lepiobasis"; "Leplobasis"; "Leptabasis"; "Leptebasis"; "Leptobasa"; "Leptobasi"; "Leptohasis"; "Lsptobasis".
  • 🧍 Later homonym of Leptobasis Dulac 1867 (Brassicaceae); see also Komarek and Golubic (1990). Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Leptobasis caucasica Elenkin 1915	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Leptobasis crassa (West 1914) Geitler 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Leptobasis goesingensis corrig. Palik 1939	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), rejected name	in need of a replacement
    Leptobasis spirulina (Steinecke 1923) Geitler 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Leptobasis striatula (Hy 1887) Elenkin 1915	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Leptobasis tenuissima (West and West 1894) Elenkin 1915	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym

Parent taxon: Nostocaceae Eichler 1886

Assigned by: Hauer T, Bohunicka M, Johansen JR, Mares J, Berrendero-Gomez E. Reassessment of the cyanobacterial family Microchaetaceae and establishment of new families Tolypothrichaceae and Godleyaceae. J Phycol 2014; 50:1089-1100.

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Record number: 10008