Name: Plectonema Thuret ex Gomont 1892

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Plectonema

Gender: neuter

Type species: Plectonema tomasinianum Thuret ex Gomont 1892

Valid publication: Gomont M. Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées) deuxiéme partie -Lyngbyées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Série 7 1892; 16:91-264.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Plectonemataceae Elenkin 1949. Publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezelenye vodorosli SSSR. Spetsial’naya (sistematicheskaya) chast’. Vyp. 2. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk USSR, Moskva & Leningrad, 1949.
  • Elenkin (1949) assigned this genus to the family Plectonemataceae Elenkin 1949. Publication: Elenkin AA. Monographia algarum Cyanophycearum aquidulcium et terrestrium in finibus URSS inventarum, Pars specialis (Systematica), Fasc. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. Sumptibus Academiae Scientarum URSS, Mosqua & Leningrad, 1949.
  • Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Scytonemataceae Frank 1886. 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 in some sources as: "Flectonema"; "Piectonema"; "Pkctonema"; "Plactonema"; "Plcctonema"; "Plecfonema"; "Pleclonema"; "Plecmnema"; "Plectanema"; "Plectcnema"; "Plectenema"; "Plectoncma"; "Plectonenia"; "Plectonerna"; "Plectonmna"; "Plectouema"; "Pleetonema"; "Pleotonema"; "Ptecfonema".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 8
Total number of child taxa: 8

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Plectonema boryanum Gomont 1899	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Plectonema calothricoides Gomont 1899	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Plectonema nostocorum Bornet ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Plectonema phormidioides Hansgirg ex Forti 1907	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Plectonema radiosum Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Plectonema terebrans Bornet and Flahault ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Plectonema tomasinianum Thuret ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Plectonema wollei Farlow ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym

Parent taxon: Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898

Assigned by: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.

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Record number: 6343