Genus Lithocapsa

Name: Lithocapsa Ercegović 1925

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Li.tho.cap’sa. Gr. masc./fem. n. lithos, stone; L. fem. n. capsa, box; N.L. fem. n. Lithocapsa, a box from a stone

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Lithocaps-), li-t^ho-KAP-sa

Type species: Lithocapsa fasciculata Ercegović 1925

Valid publication: Ercegovic A. Litofitska vegetacija vapnenaca i dolomita u Hrvatskoj. La végétation lithophytes sur les calcaires et les dolomites en Croatie. Acta Botanica Instituti Botanici Universitatis Zabrabensis 1925; 10:64-114.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. 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 Chlorogloea Wille 1900. Publication: Bourrelly P. Les algues d'eau douce. Initiation à la systématique. Tome III: Les Algues bleues et rouges. Les Eugléniens, Peridiniens et Cryptomonadines. Boubée & Cie, Paris, 1970.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Lilhocapsa"; "Lithecapsa"; "Lithocupsa"; "Litlzocapsa".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Lithocapsa fasciculata Ercegović 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Entophysalidaceae Geitler 1925

Assigned by: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kastovsky J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) - state in 2004. Algological Studies 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺

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Record number: 6524