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Genus Nematoplaca
Name: Nematoplaca Geitler 1933
Etymology: Ne.ma.to’pla.ca. N.L. fem. n. Nematoplaca
Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Nematoplac-), ne-ma-TO-pla-ka
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
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Notes:
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🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Stigonemataceae corrig. (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.
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- 🚋 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".
- 🧍 See also Geitler and Ruttner (1936). Publication: Geitler L, Ruttner F. Die Cyanophyceen der deutschen limnologischen Sunda-Expedition, ihre Morphologie, Systematik und Ökologie. Zweiter Teil. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Tropische Binnengewässer 1936; 14:371-483.
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🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Stigonemataceae corrig. (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.
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
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Nematoplaca incrustans Geitler 1933 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name
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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
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