Name: Stauromatonema Frémy 1930

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Stau.ro.ma.to.ne’ma. Gr. neut. n. nêma, a thread; N.L. neut. n. Stauromatonema

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Stauromatonemat-), sta͡u-ro-ma-to-NE-ma

Type species: Stauromatonema viride Frémy 1930

Valid publication: Frémy P. Les Myxophycées de l'Afrique équatoriale française. Archives de Botanique, Mémoires 1930; 3:1-508.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Stigonemataceae corrig. (Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Borzì 1892. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Capsosira Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. 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: "Slauromalonema"; "Stanromatonenia"; "Stauromalonema".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Stauromatonema minutissimum Geitler 1933	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Stauromatonema nigrum Frémy 1930	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Stauromatonema viride Frémy 1930	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Capsosiraceae Geitler 1925

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: 6220