Genus "Pleurococcus"
Name: "Pleurococcus" Meneghini 1837
Etymology: Pleu.ro.coc.cus. N.L. masc. n. Pleurococcus
Gender: masculine (stem: Pleurococc-)
Original publication: Meneghini G. Conspectus algologiae Euganeae. Comentarii di Medicina. Opera Periodica di G.F. Spongia 1837; 4:321-355.
Nomenclatural status: not validly published
Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)
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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.
- This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Bleurococcus"; "Fleurococcus"; "Phurococcus"; "Piaurococeus"; "Pleiirococcus"; "Plenrococcus"; "Pleuirococczis"; "Pleuracoccus"; "Pleuroccus"; "Pleurococcua"; "Pleurococeus"; "Pleurocoecus"; "Pleurocooous"; "Pleuroeoccus"; "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.
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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.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status "Pleurococcus vulgaris" (Greville 1827) Meneghini 1842 not validly published preferred name (not correct name)
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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
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