Name: Pleurococcus Meneghini 1837

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pleu.ro.coc.cus. N.L. masc. n. Pleurococcus

Gender: masculine (stem: Pleurococc-)

Type species: Pleurococcus communis Meneghini 1837

Valid publication: Meneghini G. Conspectus algologiae Euganeae. Comentarii di Medicina. Opera Periodica di G.F. Spongia 1837; 4:321-355.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Pleurococcaceae (Klebs 1883) Warming 1890. Publication: Warming E. Handbuch der systematischen Botanik. Deutsche Ausgabe von Dr. Emil Knoblauch. Unknown Publisher, Berlin, 1890.
  • 🧕 Warming (1890) assigned this genus to the family Pleurococcaceae (Klebs 1883) Warming 1890. Publication: Warming E. Handbuch der systematischen Botanik. Deutsche Ausgabe von Dr. Emil Knoblauch. Unknown Publisher, Berlin, 1890.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Bleurococcus"; "Flcurococcus"; "Fleurococcus"; "Phurococcus"; "Piaurococeus"; "Pleiirococcus"; "Plenrococcus"; "Pletirococcus"; "Pleuirococczis"; "Pleuracoccus"; "Pleurocaccus"; "Pleuroccus"; "Pleurococcua"; "Pleurococeus"; "Pleurocoecus"; "Pleurocooous"; "Pleuroeoccus"; "Pleuroeoceus"; "Pleuroeoeeus"; "Pleutococcus"; "Plewrococcus"; "Plewrococeus"; "Pmunococcus"; "Pteurococcus".
  • 🧍 According to Komarek and Golubic (1990) originally assigned to Cyanobacteria but probably nomen ambiguum, type is probably green alga (Chlorophyceae). Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🧍 Drouet and Daily (1956) designated Pleurococcus communis as type species (lectotype). Publication: Drouet F, Daily WA. Revision of the coccoid Myxophyceae. Butler University Botanical Studies 1956; 12:1-218.
  • 🧍 Nägeli 1849 (designated) Pleurococcus vulgaris as type species (lectotype). Publication: Nägeli C. Gattungen einzelliger Algen, physiologisch und systematisch bearbeitet. Neue Denkschriften der Allg. Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 1849; 10:1-139.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "PLCO" 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: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Pleurococcus communis Meneghini 1837	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Pleurococcus koettlitzi Fritsch 1912	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Pleurococcus koettlitzii corrig. Fritsch 1912	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Pleurococcus vulgaris" (Greville 1827) Meneghini 1842	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863

Assigned by: Silva PC. Names of classes and families of living algae with special reference to their use in the Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, Utrecht, 1980.

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Record number: 17818