Name: Lithonema Ercegović 1929

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Li.tho.ne’ma. Gr. masc./fem. n. lithos, stone; Gr. neut. n. nêma, thread; N.L. neut. n. Lithonema, a thread from a stone

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Lithonemat-), li-t^ho-NE-ma

Type species: Lithonema adriaticum Ercegović 1929

Valid publication: Ercegovic A. Sur la valeur systématique et la ramification des genres Brachytrichia Zan. et Kyrtuthrix Erceg. et sur un nouveau type d'algue perforante. Annales de Protistologie 1929; 2:127-138.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Lithonemataceae Elenkin 1949. 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.
  • 🧕 Elenkin (1949) assigned this genus to the family Lithonemataceae Elenkin 1949. Publication: 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.
  • 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the family Mastigocladaceae Geitler 1925. 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Litbonema"; "Lithojnema"; "Lithoncma"; "Lithouema".
  • 🧍 Komarek and Golubic (1990) regard this name as a later homonym. 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: 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
    Lithonema adriaticum Ercegović 1929	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916

Assigned by: Ercegovic A. Sur la valeur systématique et la ramification des genres Brachytrichia Zan. et Kyrtuthrix Erceg. et sur un nouveau type d'algue perforante. Annales de Protistologie 1929; 2:127-138.

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