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Name: "Mazaea" Bornet and Grunow 1881

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Ma.zae’a. N.L. fem. n. Mazaea, named in honor of M. Mazé

Gender: feminine (stem: Mazae-)

Type species: "Mazaea rivularioides" Bornet and Grunow 1881

Original publication: Bornet É, Grunow A. Mazaea, nouveau genre d'algue de L'ordre des crypthophycees. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 1881; 33:287-290.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

  • Notes:
    • 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the family Nostochopsidaceae corrig. 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 name is a homonym of Mazaea Stål, 1876 (zoological); Mazaea Krug and Urb. (botanical) [from Catalogue of Life].
    • 🧍 Komarek and Golubic (1990) emphasize that this name is a pre-starting-point synonym. 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: 1

Parent taxon: Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916

Assigned by: Freese HM, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sarda Carbasse J, Afolayan AO, Goker M. TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity. Nucleic Acids Res 2026; 54:D884-D891. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 17923