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Genus Tetrachloris
Name: Tetrachloris Pascher 1925
Etymology: Te.tra.chlo’ris. N.L. fem. n. Tetrachloris, a green organism with four cells
Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Tetrachlorid-), te-tra-KHLO-ris
Type species: Tetrachloris inconstans Pascher 1925
Valid publication: Geitler L, Pascher A. Cyanochloridinae = Chlorobacteriaceae. In: Pascher A (eds), Die Süsswasserflora Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz, Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1925, p. 451-463.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family "Chlorobacteriaceae" Geitler and Pascher 1925. Publication: Geitler L, Pascher A. Cyanochloridinae = Chlorobacteriaceae. In: Pascher A (eds), Die Süsswasserflora Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz, Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1925, p. 451-463.
- 🧕 Starmach (1966) assigned this genus to the family "Cyanochloridaceae" Fritsch 1945. Publication: Starmach K. Cyanophyta-Sinice. Glaucophyta-Glaukofity. In: Starmach K (eds), Flora slodkowodna Polski. Band 2, Panstwowe Wydawnietwo Naukowe, Warszawa, 1966, p. 807.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Tctrachloris"; "Tetracliloris"; "Tetraehloris"; "Tetruchloris"; "Zetrachloris".
- 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of Tetrachloris Pascher and Jahoda 1928.
- 🧍 Different from Tetrachloris Pascher and Jahoda 1928 nom. illeg. (Chlorophyta), which was replaced by Quadrichloris Fott 1960. Publication: Fott B. Taxonomische Übertragungen und Namensänderungen unter den Algen. Preslia 1960; 32:142-154.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 5
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Tetrachloris allorgei Bourrelly 1951 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Tetrachloris diplococcus Pringsheim 1953 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) synonym Tetrachloris inconstans Pascher 1925 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Tetrachloris merismopedioides Skuja 1948 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Tetrachloris minima Starmach 1928 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name
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Parent taxon: Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863
Assigned by:
Pringsheim EG. [Taxonomy of the green bacteria]. Arch Mikrobiol 1953; 19:353-364. 
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Record number: 34844
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