Genus Polycystis

Name: Polycystis Kützing 1849

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Polycystis

Gender: feminine (stem: Polycyst-)

Type species: Polycystis aeruginosa (Kützing 1833) Kützing 1849

Valid publication: Kützing FT. Species algarum. F.A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1849.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Microcystis Kützing ex Lemmermann 1907

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Diplocystis Trevisan 1848	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Micraloa Biasoletto 1832	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Microcystis Kützing ex Lemmermann 1907	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), conserved name

Notes:
- 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Microcystis Kützing ex Lemmermann 1907. Publication: Lemmermann E. Algen I (Schizophyceen, Flagellaten, Peridineen). In: Anonymous NN (eds), Kryptogamenflora der Mark Brandenburg und angrenzender Gebiete herausgegeben von dem Botanischen Verein der Provinz Brandenburg. Dritter Band, Verlag von Gebrüder Borntraeger, Leipzig, 1907, p. 1-304.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Palycystis"; "Pelyeystis"; "Polyceystis"; "Polycyatis"; "Polycyslis"; "Polycystidis"; "Polycyuix"; "Polycyvtis"; "Polyeystis"; "Polyrystis".
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NIES: 1.
- 🧍 Illegitimate according to Algaebase. Publication: McNeill J, Barrie FR, Buck WR, Demoulin V, Greuter W, Hawksworth DL, Herendeen PS, Knapp S, Marhold K, Prado J, et al. International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants (Melbourne Code). Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein, 2012.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 9
Total number of child taxa: 9

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Polycystis aeruginosa (Kützing 1833) Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
Polycystis clarionensis Setchell and Gardner 1937	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
Polycystis fuscolutea Hansgirg 1888	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
Polycystis incerta Lemmermann 1899	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
Polycystis litoralis Hansgirg 1890	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
Polycystis ochracea Brand 1898	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
Polycystis reticulata Lemmermann 1898	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
Polycystis stagnalis Lemmermann 1900	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
Polycystis viridis Braun 1865	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym

Parent taxon: Microcystaceae Elenkin 1933

Assigned by: 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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Record number: 8145

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