Name: Tolypothrix Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. fem. n. thrix, hair; N.L. fem. n. Tolypothrix

Gender: feminine (stem: Tolypotrich-)

Type species: Tolypothrix distorta Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Valid publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (Troisième fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième série 1886; 5:51-129.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Tolypothrichaceae Hauer et al. 2014. Publication: Hauer T, Bohunicka M, Johansen JR, Mares J, Berrendero-Gomez E. Reassessment of the cyanobacterial family Microchaetaceae and establishment of new families Tolypothrichaceae and Godleyaceae. J Phycol 2014; 50:1089-1100.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Tolypotrichaceae corrig. Hauer et al. 2014. Publication: Hauer T, Bohunicka M, Johansen JR, Mares J, Berrendero-Gomez E. Reassessment of the cyanobacterial family Microchaetaceae and establishment of new families Tolypothrichaceae and Godleyaceae. J Phycol 2014; 50:1089-1100.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the subfamily Tolypotrichoideae Komárek and Anagnostidis 1989. Publication: Komárek J, Anagnostidis K. Modern approach to the classification system of Cyanophytes 4 - Nostocales. Algological Studies 1989; 56:247-345.
  • 🧕 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.
  • 🧕 Bornet and Flahault (1886) assigned this genus to the family Scytonemataceae Frank 1886. Publication: Bornet, Flahault, C.h.m. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. ser. 7 1886; 5:71.
  • 🧕 Bornet and Flahault (1886) assigned this genus to the tribe Scytonemateae corrig. Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886. Publication: Bornet, Flahault, C.h.m. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. ser. 7 1886; 5:71.
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Scytonemataceae Frank 1886. 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 Microchaetaceae Lemmermann 1907. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 🧕 Komarek and Anagnostidis (1989) assigned this genus to the subfamily Tolypotrichoideae Komárek and Anagnostidis 1989. Publication: Komárek J, Anagnostidis K. Modern approach to the classification system of Cyanophytes 4 - Nostocales. Algological Studies 1989; 56:247-345.
  • 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Tolypothrichaceae Hauer et al. 2014. 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pfiypothrix"; "Talypothrix"; "Tclypothrix"; "Tnlypothrix"; "Tohjpothrix"; "Tohpothrix"; "Toiypothrix"; "Tolgpothrix"; "Tolijpothrix"; "Tolipothrix"; "Tolppothrix"; "Tolupothrix"; "Tolvpothrix"; "Tolyibothrix"; "Tolylpothrix"; "Tolypothria"; "Tolypothricis"; "Tolypothris"; "Tolypothriz"; "Totypothrix"; "Tulypothrix"; "Tvlypothrix".
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "TYTH" 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: 37
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 39
Total number of child taxa: 43

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Tolypothrix africana Cholnoky 1955	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix arboricola Frémy 1930	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix bouteillei (Bornet and Flahault 1886) Lemmermann 1907	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Tolypothrix brevis (Gardner 1927) Geitler 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix byssoidea (Agardh 1812) Kirchner 1898	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix campylonemoides Ghose 1924	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Tolypothrix carrinoae" corrig. Miscoe et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Tolypothrix carrinoi" Miscoe et al. 2016	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)
    Tolypothrix chungii Gardner 1926	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix consociata Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix curta Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix delicatula Philson 1939	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix discoidea (Gardner 1927) Geitler 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix distorta Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix elenkinii Hollerbach 1923	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Tolypothrix epilithica (Ercegović 1925) Geitler 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix fragilis (Gardner 1927) Geitler 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix fragilissima Ercegović 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix granulata (Gardner 1927) Geitler 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix hatienensis Phung et al. 1992	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix hollerbachii Muzafarov 1952	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix lanata Wartmann ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix letestui Frémy 1930	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix limbata Thuret ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Tolypothrix lithophila" (Ercegović 1925) Bourrelly 1970	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
    Tolypothrix manginii Geitler 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix metamorpha Skuja 1937	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix mongolica Zagorenko and Prozorov 1983	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix nodosa Bharadwaja 1934	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix papyracea Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix polymorpha Lemmermann 1896	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix pseudorexia Novis and Visnovsky 2011	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix pulvinata (Frémy 1930) Geitler 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix rechingeri (Wille 1913) Geitler 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix rivularis Hansgirg 1891	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix robusta Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix rugulosa (Gardner 1927) Geitler 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix scytonematoides (Gardner 1927) Geitler 1932	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix setchellii Ercegović 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Tolypothrix subsalsa" Tseng and Hua 1983	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Tolypothrix tenella Gardner 1926	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix tenuis Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Tolypothrix willei Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Tolypotrichaceae corrig. Hauer 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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