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Name: Proterendothrix West and West 1897

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Pro.te.ren’do.thrix. Gr. fem. n. thrix, hair; N.L. fem. n. Proterendothrix

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Proterendotrich-), pro-te-REN-do-thrix

Type species: Proterendothrix scolecoidea 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

  • Notes:
    • 🧕 Elenkin (1949) assigned this genus to the family Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898. Publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh Cyanophyceae, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. (okonchaniye). Izdate'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moskva & Leningrad, 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.
    • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Promrendothrix"; "Protercndothrix"; "Proterendotrichi"; "Pruterendothrix".
    • 🧍 Full authorship: W. and G.S. West 1897.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

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: 6310