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Genus Pseudoscytonema
Name: Pseudoscytonema Elenkin 1949
Etymology: Pseu.do.scy.to.ne’ma. Gr. neut. n. nêma, a thread; N.L. neut. n. Pseudoscytonema
Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Pseudoscytonemat-), pse͡u-do-sky-to-NE-ma
Type species: Pseudoscytonema malayense Elenkin 1949
Valid publication: Elenkin AA. Monographia algarum Cyanophycearum aquidulcium et terrestrium in finibus URSS inventarum, Pars specialis (Systematica), Fasc. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. Sumptibus Academiae Scientarum URSS, Mosqua & Leningrad, 1949.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Pseudoscytonemataceae Elenkin 1949. Publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezelenye vodorosli SSSR. Spetsial’naya (sistematicheskaya) chast’. Vyp. 2. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk USSR, Moskva & Leningrad, 1949.
- 🧕 Elenkin (1949) assigned this genus to the family Pseudoscytonemataceae 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.
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🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family "Ammatoideaceae".
Publication:
Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
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- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pseudascytonema".
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 7
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Pseudoscytonema capitatum (Jaag 1935) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name in need of a replacement Pseudoscytonema congregationis (Schwabe 1962) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Pseudoscytonema corynoideum (Beljakova 1989) Beljakova 2000 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) synonym Pseudoscytonema malayense Elenkin 1949 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Pseudoscytonema sphaerocephalum (Jao and Lee 1962) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Pseudoscytonema spongiosum (Schwabe 1962) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Pseudoscytonema subclavatum (Starmach 1958) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988 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: 6389
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