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Name: "Limnactis" Kützing 1843

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Limn.ac’tis. Gr. fem. n. limnê, lake; Gr. fem. n. aktis, ray; N.L. fem. n. Limnactis, a ray from a lake

Gender: feminine (stem: Limnactin-)

Original publication: Kützing FT. Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange. Mit 80 farbig gedruckten Tafeln, gezeichnet und gravirt vom Verfasser. F.A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1843.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

  • Notes:
    • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Limnachis"; "Limnaciis"; "Limnaclis"; "Limnaetis"; "Lininactis"; "Lymnactis"; "Zimnactis".
    • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
    • 🧍 According to Komarek and Golubic (1990) originally assigned to Cyanobacteria but probably mixture of Gloeotrichia and Rivularia, pre-starting-point genus. Publication: Komárek J, Golubić S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Published by the Authors, Třeboň and Boston, 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: 0
Total number of child taxa: 2

Parent taxon: Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Assigned by: Elenkin AA. Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh Cyanophyceae, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. (okonchaniye). Izdate'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moskva & Leningrad, 1949.

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Record number: 18046