Name: Umezakia Watanabe 1987

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: U.me.za’ki.a. N.L. fem. n. Umezakia, named to honor Isamu Umezaki, Japanese botanist

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Umezaki-), u-me-ZA-ki-a

Type species: Umezakia natans Watanabe 1987

Valid publication: Watanabe M. Studies on the planktonic blue-green algae 2. Umezakia natans gen. et sp. nov. (Stigonemataceae) from the Mikata lakes, Fukui Prefecture. Bulletin of the National Science Museum Series B (Botany) 1987; 13:81-88.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family "Symphyonemataceae" Hoffmann et al. 2005. 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 Aphanizomenonaceae Elenkin 1938. 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: "Umezekia".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Umezakia natans Watanabe 1987	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Umezakia ovalisporum (Forti 1911) McGregor et al. 2023	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Nodulariaceae Elenkin 1916

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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Record number: 6469