Genus Lithonema

Name: Lithonema Ercegović 1929

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Lithonema

Gender: neuter (stem: Lithonemat-)

Type species: Lithonema adriaticum Ercegović 1929

Valid publication: Ercegović A. [Title pending]. Ann. Protist. 1929; 2:136.

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. Sinezelenye vodorosli SSSR. Spetsial’naya (sistematicheskaya) chast’. Vyp. 2. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk USSR, Moskva & Leningrad, 1949.
- Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the family Mastigocladaceae Geitler 1925. 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 in some sources as: "Litbonema"; "Lithojnema"; "Lithoncma"; "Lithouema".
- Komarek and Golubic (1990) regard this name as a later homonym. 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: 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: Ercegović A. [Title pending]. Ann. Protist. 1929; 2:136.

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Record number: 17972

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