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Name: "Undina" Fries 1825

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Un.di’na. N.L. fem. n. Undina, referring to Undine, water nymph in Greek mythology

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Undin-), un-DI-na

Type species: "Undina pruniformis" Fries 1825

Original publication: Fries E. Systema orbis vegetabilis. Pars I. Plantae homonemeae. E Typographia Academia, Lundae, 1825.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

  • Notes:
    • 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the subfamily "Nostocoideae". 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.
    • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pndina"; "Undiua".
    • 💥 This name is a homonym of Undina Dana, 1849-1852 (zoological) [from Catalogue of Life].
    • 🧍 Komarek and Golubic (1990) emphasize that this name is a pre-starting-point synonym. 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: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

Parent taxon: Nostocaceae Eichler 1886

Assigned by: Komárek J, Golubić S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Published by the Authors, Třeboň and Boston, 1990.

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Record number: 17976

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