Name: Nostochopsis Wood ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Nos.toch.op’sis. N.L. neut. n. Nostoc, a cyanobacterial genus; Gr. fem. n. opsis, aspect, appearance; N.L. fem. n. Nostochopsis, that which appears similar to Nostoc

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Nostochopsid-), nos-tok^h-OP-sis

Type species: Nostochopsis lobata corrig. Wood ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Valid publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (Troisième fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième série 1886; 5:51-129.

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. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family "Nostochopsidaceae". Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Mostochopsis"; "Noatochopsis"; "Noslochopsis"; "Nostochopis"; "Nostochopsidis"; "Nostockopsis".
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "NSCH" 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: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Nostochopsis goetzei corrig. Schmidle 1900	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Nostochopsis goetzi Schmidle 1900	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Nostochopsis hansgirgii Schmidle 1900	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nostochopsis lobata corrig. Wood ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nostochopsis lobatus Wood ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Nostochopsis radians Bharadwaja 1934	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nostochopsis stagnalis (Hansgirg 1889) Hansgirg 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nostochopsis transvaalensis Welsh 1961	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nostochopsis wichmannii Weber-van Bosse 1913	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916

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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