Genus Tetrapedia

Name: Tetrapedia Reinsch 1867

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Te.tra.pe’di.a. Gr. pref. tetra-, four (in compound words); Gr. neut. n. pedion, a plain, a flat area; N.L. fem. n. Tetrapedia, a plain with four cells

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Tetrapedi-), te-tra-PE-di-a

Type species: Tetrapedia cruxmichaeli Reinsch 1867

Valid publication: Reinsch PF. Die Algenflora des mittleren Theiles von Franken. Verlag von Wilhelm Schmid, Nürnberg, 1867.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Bennett and Murray (1889) assigned this genus to the order Chroococcales corrig. Ardissone 1886. Publication: Bennett AW, Murray G. A handbook of cryptogamic botany. Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1889.
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the order Chroococcales corrig. Ardissone 1886. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧕 West (1904) assigned this genus to the subfamily Chroococcoideae corrig. West 1904. Publication: West GS. A treatise on the British freshwater algae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1904.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Teirapedia"; "Teteapedia"; "Tetrapcdia"; "Tetrapedla"; "Tetrapwga"; "Tetrnpedia".
  • 💥 This name is a homonym of Tetrapedia Reinsch, 1866 (botanical); Tetrapedia Klug, 1810 (zoological) [from Catalogue of Life].
  • 🧍 According to Komarek and Golubic (1990) originally assigned to Cyanobacteria but probably green algae from different genera; Geitler (1942), Claus (1963). 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.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 14
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 15
Total number of child taxa: 15

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Tetrapedia aversa West and West 1897	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tetrapedia cruxmichaeli Reinsch 1867	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tetrapedia emarginata Schröder 1897	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tetrapedia foliacea Turner 1893	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tetrapedia glaucescens (Wittrock 1872) De Toni 1891	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tetrapedia gothica Reinsch 1867	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tetrapedia kirchneri Lemmermann 1900	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tetrapedia morsa West and West 1895	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tetrapedia penzigiana De Toni 1891	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tetrapedia penzigiana De Toni 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Tetrapedia quadrata Ghose 1931	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tetrapedia reinschiana Archer 1872	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tetrapedia setigera Archer 1872	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tetrapedia trigona West and West 1894	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tetrapedia wallichiana Turner 1893	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863

Assigned by: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.

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