Name: Seguenzaea Borzì 1907

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Se.guenz.ae’a. N.L. fem. n. Seguenzaea

Gender: feminine (stem: Seguenzae-)

Type species: Seguenzaea sicula Borzì 1917

Valid publication: Borzì A. I generi delle Stigonemacee. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Atti del Congresso dei naturalisti italiani - promosso dalla Società italiana di scienze naturali, Milano, 15-19 settembre 1906. Società italiana di scienze naturali, Tipografia degli operai, Milano [Milan], 1907, p. 370-375.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Scytonemataceae corrig. Frank 1886. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Borzinemataceae Geitler 1942. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Seguenmea"; "Seguenzaca"; "Seguenzea"; "Seguwensaea".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Seguenzaea minor Geitler 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Seguenzaea sicula Borzì 1917	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Tolypotrichaceae corrig. Hauer et al. 2014

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: 6488