Name: Symploca Kützing ex Gomont 1892

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Sym’plo.ca. Gr. fem. n. plokê, a twist, anything twisted, a braid; N.L. fem. n. Symploca, a cyanobacterial genus

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Symploc-), SYM-plo-ka

Type species: Symploca hydnoides Kützing ex Gomont 1892

Valid publication: Gomont M. Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées) deuxiéme partie -Lyngbyées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Série 7 1892; 16:91-264.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Cyanohydnum Copeland 1936	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Anagnostidis and Komarek (1988) assigned this genus to the family Phormidiaceae Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988. Publication: Anagnostidis K, Komárek J. Modern approach to the classification system of cyanophytes. 3. Oscillatoriales. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Supplement 1988; 80:327-472.
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the class "Cyanobacteria". Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Elenkin (1949) assigned this genus to the family Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898. 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.
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898. 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 Phormidiaceae Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
  • 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Microcoleaceae (Hansgirg 1892) Strunecký et al. 2013. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335. 🇨🇿
  • 🧒 Gomont (1892) assigned the subgenus Symplocastrum Gomont 1892 to this genus. Publication: Gomont M. Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées homocystées). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Série 7 1892; 15:263-368.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Byinploca"; "Bymploca"; "Hymploca"; "Sgmploca"; "Sijmploca"; "Simploca"; "Sjmploca"; "Stmploca"; "Suymploca"; "Svmplooa"; "Syimploca"; "Syitiploca"; "Symbloca"; "Symloca"; "Sympioca"; "Symplaca"; "Symplcca"; "Sympleca"; "Symplnca"; "Symplocn"; "Symploea"; "Symplooa"; "Symplora"; "Symplosa"; "Symploza"; "Sympoloca"; "Symptoca"; "Syniploca"; "Syrnploca"; "Sywploca".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: UC: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "SMPL" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 29
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 33
Total number of child taxa: 36

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Symploca aeruginosa Setchell and Gardner 1918	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca atlantica Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Symploca caespitosa" Tseng and Hua 1983	not validly published	preferred name
    Symploca cartilaginea Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Symploca cavernarum Copeland 1936	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca ciliata (Copeland 1936) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca codiiformis Giaccone 1969	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca cuspidata West and West 1894	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Symploca discolor Migula 1905	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca dubia Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca endolithica Beljakova 1989	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca erecta Pevalek 1916	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca funicularis Setchell and Gardner 1918	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca hedraia Bradley 1970	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca howei Gardner 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca hydnoides Kützing ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca infralitoralis Caires et al. 2013	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca kieneri Drouet 1943	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca lacrimans Claus 1962	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca laeteviridis Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca meneghiniana Kützing ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca microdonta Setchell and Gardner 1930	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca muralis Kützing ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Symploca muscorum" Gomont 1890	not validly published	synonym
    Symploca muscorum Gomont ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Symploca negrosensis Soriano 1953	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca nemecii Prát 1929	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca paludicola Gardner 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca parietina Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca profunda Taylor 1928	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca robusta Schwabe 1947	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca roseola Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Symploca symbiotica Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Symploca thermalis" Gomont 1892	not validly published	preferred name
    Symploca willei Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Symploca yappii West 1902	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Coleofasciculaceae Komárek 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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