Name: Scytonematopsis Kiseleva 1930

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Scy.to.ne.mat.op’sis. N.L. neut. n. Scytonema, a cyanobacterial genus; Gr. fem. n. opsis, aspect, appearance; N.L. fem. n. Scytonematopsis, that which appears similar to Scytonema

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Scytonematopsid-), sky-to-ne-mat-OP-sis

Type species: Scytonematopsis woronichinii Kiseleva 1930

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kiseleva EI. About a new bluegreen algae Scytonematopsis woronichinii. Zhurnal Russkago Botanicheskago Obshchestva pri Akademii Nauk 1930; 15:169-174.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Tildenia Kossinskaja 1926	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Elenkin (1949) assigned this genus to the family Tildeniaceae Kossinskaja 1926. 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Hcytonelnatopsis"; "Hcytonematopsis"; "Scgtunernatopsis"; "Scylonematopsis"; "Scyronematopsis"; "Scystonematopsis"; "Scytanematopsis"; "Scytoneinatopsis"; "Scytonematapsis"; "Scytonematiopsis"; "Segtonematopsis"; "Seplonematopsis"; "Setonematopsis"; "Seylonematopsis"; "Seytonematopsis"; "Seytunematopsis"; "Srymnematopsis".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CHR: 1; BISH: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 14
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 14
Total number of child taxa: 16

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Scytonematopsis calothrichoides Geitler 1933	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Scytonematopsis contorta Vaccarino and Johansen 2011	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Scytonematopsis crustacea (Thuret ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Kováčik and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Scytonematopsis fuliginosa (Tilden 1909) Copeland 1936	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Scytonematopsis ghazipurensis" Pandey and Mitra 1965	not validly published	preferred name
    Scytonematopsis hydnoides Copeland 1936	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Scytonematopsis incerta Geitler 1933	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Scytonematopsis kashyapii (Bharadwaja 1928) Geitler 1936	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Scytonematopsis maxima Novis and Visnovsky 2011	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Scytonematopsis neocaledoniense Couté et al. 1999	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Scytonematopsis neocaledoniensis corrig. Couté et al. 1999	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Scytonematopsis pilosa (Harvey ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Umezaki and Watanabe 1994	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Scytonematopsis shankargarhensis Varma 1974	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Scytonematopsis starmachii Kováčik and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Scytonematopsis terrestris Varma 1974	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Scytonematopsis woronichinii Kiseleva 1930	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Scytonemataceae corrig. Frank 1886

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: 6504