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Genus Polychlamydum
Name: Polychlamydum West and West 1897
Etymology: Po.ly.chla’my.dum. N.L. neut. n. Chlamydum; N.L. neut. n. Polychlamydum
Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Polychlamyd-), po-ly-KHLA-my-dum
Type species: Polychlamydum insigne West and West 1897
Valid publication: West W, West GS. Welwitsch's African freshwater algae. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 1897; 35:1-7.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 🧕 Elenkin (1949) assigned this genus to the family Schizotrichaceae Elenkin 1949. Publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh S'yanofiseaye, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. (okonchaniye). Izdate'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 1949.
- 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
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🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898.
Publication:
Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
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- 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335. 🇨🇿
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Polycalamydum"; "Polychtamydum".
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🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "PLCL" 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: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 6
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Polychlamydum calcicola corrig. Kufferath 1914 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) synonym Polychlamydum calcicolum Kufferath 1914 inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code]) misspelling Polychlamydum cavanillesii González Guerrero 1946 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) synonym Polychlamydum gaditanum González Guerrero 1946 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Polychlamydum insigne West and West 1897 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Polychlamydum varium Ghose 1927 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name
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Parent taxon: Microcoleaceae (Hansgirg 1892) Strunecký et al. 2013
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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Record number: 6309
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