Name: Stilocapsa Ley 1947

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Sti.lo.cap’sa. L. fem. n. stilla, a drop; L. fem. n. capsa, a box; N.L. fem. n. Stilocapsa, a drop-like box

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Stilocaps-), sti-lo-KAP-sa

Type species: Stilocapsa sinica Ley 1947

Valid publication: Ley S-H. New Myxophyceae from Northern Kwangtung. Bot. Bull. Acad. Sinica 1947; 1:77-79.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Joosten (2006) assigned this genus to the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. Publication: Joosten AMT. Flora of the blue-green algae of the Netherlands I The non-filamentous species of inland waters. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht, 2006.
  • 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the subfamily Gomphosphaerioideae (Elenkin 1933) Komárek and Hindák 1988. Publication: Komárek J, Golubić S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Published by the Authors, Třeboň and Boston, 1990.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Cyanostylon Geitler 1928. 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: "Spilocapsa"; "Stilacapsa".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Stilocapsa sinica Ley 1947	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Entophysalidaceae Geitler 1925

Assigned by: Ley S-H. New Myxophyceae from Northern Kwangtung. Bot. Bull. Acad. Sinica 1947; 1:77-79.

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Record number: 18068