Name: Peloploca Lauterborn 1913

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pe.lo’plo.ca. Gr. fem. n. plokê, a twist, anything twisted, a braid; N.L. fem. n. Peloploca, tj-pe genus of the family

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Peloploc-), pe-LO-plo-ka

Type species: Peloploca undulata Lauterborn 1913

Valid publication: Lauterborn R. Zur Kenntnis einiger sapropelischer Schizomyceten. Allgemeine Botanische Zeitschrift 1913; 19:97-100.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Peloplocaceae Beger 1957. Publication: Breed RS, Murray EG, Smith NR. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th ed. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1957.
  • 🧕 Breed et al. (1957) assigned this genus to the family Peloplocaceae Beger 1957. Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pcloploca"; "Peioploca".
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "PEPC" 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: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Peloploca ferruginea Skuja 1956	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Peloploca fibrata Skuja 1956	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Peloploca pulchra Skuja 1956	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Peloploca taeniata Lauterborn 1913	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Peloploca undulata Lauterborn 1913	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Pelonemataceae Skuja 1956

Assigned by: Kondratyeva NV. Sino-zeleni vodorosti-Cyanophyta [Blue-green algae - Cyanophyta]. In Viznanik prisnovodnych Vodorostej Ukrajinskoj RSR. Vol. 1(2). Naukova dumka, Kiev, 1968.

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Record number: 1805