Name: Symploca Kützing ex Gomont 1892

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. fem. n. plokê, a twist, anything twisted, a braid; N.L. fem. n. Symploca

Gender: feminine (stem: Symploc-)

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:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Coleofasciculaceae Komárek et al. 2014. Publication: Strunecky O, Ivanova AP, Mares J. An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis. J Phycol 2022; 0:0.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Hymploca"; "Stmploca"; "Syitiploca"; "Symplaca"; "Symplcca"; "Sympleca"; "Symplnca"; "Symplocn"; "Symploea"; "Symplooa"; "Symploza"; "Sympoloca"; "Syrnploca"; "Sywploca".
  • 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: 8
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 9
Total number of child taxa: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    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 cuspidata West and West 1894	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 lacrimans Claus 1962	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 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Symploca parietina Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Microcoleaceae Komárek et al. 2014

Assigned by: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.

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