Name: Mitcheldeania Wethered 1886

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Mitcheldeania, after the locality (Mitcheldean) where it was found

Gender: feminine (stem: Mitcheldeani-)

Type species: Mitcheldeania nicholsoni Wethered 1886

Valid publication: Wethered E. I. - On the Structure and Organisms of the Lower Limestone Shales, Carboniferous Limestone and Upper Limestones of the Forest of Dean. Geological Magazine 1886; 3:529-540.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Miteheldeania".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Mitcheldeania americana (Johnson 1961) Dragastan 1985	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Mitcheldeania gregaria Nicholson 1888	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Mitcheldeania nicholsoni Wethered 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Girvanellaceae Luchinina 1975

Assigned by: Vachard D. Cyanobacteria. In: Alderton D, Elias SA (eds), Encyclopedia of Geology, Academic Press, Unknown City, 2021, p. 446-460.

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Record number: 43133