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Genus Pseudocapsa
Name: Pseudocapsa Ercegović 1925
Etymology: Pseu.do.cap’sa. Gr. neut. adj. pseudes, false; L. fem. n. capsa, box; N.L. fem. n. Pseudocapsa, a false box
Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Pseudocaps-), pse͡u-do-KAP-sa
Type species: Pseudocapsa dubia Ercegović 1925
Valid publication: Ercegović A. Litofitska vegetacija vapnenaca i dolomita u Hrvatskoj. [La végétation des lithophytes sur les calcaires et les dolomites en Croatie.]. Acta Botanica Instituti Botanici Universitatis Zagrebensis 1925; 1:64-114.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Myxosarcina Printz 1921. Publication: Bourrelly P. Les algues d'eau douce. Initiation à la systématique. Tome III: Les Algues bleues et rouges. Les Eugléniens, Peridiniens et Cryptomonadines. Boubée & Cie, Paris, 1970.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pscudocapsa"; "Pseudonapsa".
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 4
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Pseudocapsa dubia Ercegović 1925 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Pseudocapsa maritima Komárek 1956 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Pseudocapsa sphaerica (Proshkina-Lavrenko 1951) Kováčik 1988 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Pseudocapsa venkataramanii Kováčik 1988 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name
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Parent taxon: Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863
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: 6213
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