Name: Myxosarcina Printz 1921

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: My.xo.sar’ci.na. Gr. fem. n. myxa, slime; L. fem. n. sarcina, a package; N.L. fem. n. Myxosarcina, a slimy package

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Myxosarcin-), my-xo-SAR-ki-na

Type species: Myxosarcina concinna Printz 1921

Valid publication: Printz H. Subaërial algae from South Africa. Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter 1921; 1920:1-41.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the class "Cyanobacteria". Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Xenococcaceae Ercegović 1932. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧕 Komarek et al. (1975) assigned this genus to the subfamily Chroococcidioideae Komárek et al. 1975. Publication: Komárek J, Ludvik J, Pokorny V. Cell structure and endospore formation in the blue-green alga Chroococcidiopsis. Arch. Hydrobiol. Suppl. 1975; 46:205-223.
  • 🧕 Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Pleurocapsaceae Geitler 1925. 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Adpvosarcina"; "Iyxosarcina"; "Miyxosarcina"; "Mrrosarcina"; "Muxosarcina"; "Mwxosarcina"; "Myacosarcina"; "Myitosarcina"; "Myxasarcina"; "Myxesarcina"; "Myxesareina"; "Myxomrcina"; "Myxosarctna"; "Myxosareina"; "Myxosmcina"; "Myxossrcina"; "Myzosarcina"; "Myzxosarcina".
  • 🧍 Komarek et al. (2014) treated Hyellaceae as synonym of the younger Pleurocapsaceae but assigned this genus to Hyellaceae in the hierarchical classification. Publication: Komárek J, Kastovsky J, Mares J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "MXSR" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 10
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 16
Total number of child taxa: 18

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Myxosarcina amethystina Copeland 1936	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Myxosarcina burmensis Skuja 1949	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Myxosarcina chroococcoides Geitler 1928	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Myxosarcina cloacarum Saxena et al. 1971	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Myxosarcina concinna Printz 1921	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Myxosarcina decolorata (Varma and Mitra 1962) Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Myxosarcina dubia" (Ercegović 1925) Bourrelly 1970	not validly published	synonym
    Myxosarcina gelatinosa Emoto and Yoneda 1941	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Myxosarcina gloeocapsoides (Setchell and Gardner 1918) Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Myxosarcina hindakii Bourrelly 1985	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Myxosarcina minuta Vogel 1955	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Myxosarcina rubra" (Gardner 1927) Bourrelly 1970	not validly published	synonym
    Myxosarcina salina Frémy 1941	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Myxosarcina spectabilis Geitler 1933	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Myxosarcina sphaerica Proshkina-Lavrenko 1951	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Myxosarcina tatrica (Starmach 1981) Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Myxosarcina thermalis Hindák 1978	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name, later homonym	synonym
    Myxosarcina thermalis Thomas and Gonzalves 1965	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Hydrococcaceae Kützing 1843

Assigned by: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612.

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