Name: Nematoplaca Geitler 1933

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ne.ma.to.pla.ca. N.L. fem. n. Nematoplaca

Gender: feminine (stem: Nematoplac-)

Type species: Nematoplaca incrustans Geitler 1933

Valid publication: Geitler L. Diagnosen neuer Blaualgen von den Sunda-Inseln. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Supplement 1933; 12:622-634.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Stigonemataceae (Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Borzì 1892. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Desmosiphon Borzì 1907. Publication: Bourrelly P. Les algues d'eau douce. Initiation à la systématique. Tome III: Les Algues bleues et rouges. Les Eugléniens, Peridiniens et Cryptomonadines. Boubée & Cie, Paris, 1970.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Neumtoplaca".

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
    Nematoplaca incrustans Geitler 1933	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Capsosiraceae Geitler 1925

Assigned by: 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.

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Record number: 6228