Name: Nostocales Borzì 1914

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Nostocales, the order of the genus Nostoc

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Nostoc Vaucher ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Valid publication: Borzì A. Studi sulle Mixoficee. I. Cenni generali - Systema Myxophycearum. Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano Ser 2 1914; 21:307-360.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Nostocales Cavalier-Smith 2002	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    Stigonematales (ex Geitler 1925) Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name

• Notes:
  • Geitler (1925) assigned this order to the class "Hormogoneae". 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 order to the subclass "Nostocophycidae" Hoffmann et al. 2005. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this order to the class "Cyanobacteria". Publication: 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.
  • Cai and Li (2020) assigned the genus Purpureonostoc Cai and Li 2020 to this order. Publication: Cai F, Li R. Purpureonostoc, a new name for a recently described genus of Nostoc-like cyanobacteria. Fottea 2020; 20:111-111.
  • Elenkin (1949) assigned the family Leptobasaceae Elenkin 1917 to this order. Publication: Elenkin AA. Monographia algarum Cyanophycearum aquidulcium et terrestrium in finibus URSS inventarum, Pars specialis (Systematica), Fasc. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. Sumptibus Academiae Scientarum URSS, Mosqua & Leningrad, 1949.
  • Elenkin (1949) assigned the family Hydrocorynaceae Elenkin 1949 to this order. Publication: Elenkin AA. Monographia algarum Cyanophycearum aquidulcium et terrestrium in finibus URSS inventarum, Pars specialis (Systematica), Fasc. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. Sumptibus Academiae Scientarum URSS, Mosqua & Leningrad, 1949.
  • Elenkin (1949) assigned the family Tildeniaceae Kossinskaja 1926 to this order. Publication: Elenkin AA. Monographia algarum Cyanophycearum aquidulcium et terrestrium in finibus URSS inventarum, Pars specialis (Systematica), Fasc. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. Sumptibus Academiae Scientarum URSS, Mosqua & Leningrad, 1949.
  • Geitler (1925) assigned the family Mastigocladaceae Geitler 1925 to this order. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • Geitler (1925) assigned the family Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898 to this order. 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 the family Loriellaceae Geitler 1925 to this order. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the family Microchaetaceae Lemmermann 1907 to this order. 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 the family Tolypothrichaceae Hauer et al. 2014 to this order. 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.
  • Nyberg and Schopf (1984) assigned the genus Ramivaginalis Nyberg and Schopf 1984 to this order. Publication: Nyberg AV, Schopf JW. Microfossils in stromatolitic cherts from the upper proterozoic Min'yar formation, southern Ural Mountains, USSR. J Paleontol 1984; 58:738-772.
  • Soares et al. (2021) assigned the genus Parakomarekiella Soares et al. 2021 to this order. Publication: Soares F, Ramos V, Trovão J, Cardoso SM, Tiago I, Portugal A. Parakomarekiella sesnandensis gen. et sp. nov. (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria) isolated from the Old Cathedral of Coimbra, Portugal (UNESCO World Heritage Site). European Journal of Phycology 2021; 56:301-315.
  • Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the family Geitleriaceae Kilgore and Johansen 2018 to this order. Publication: 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.
  • Tawong et al. (2021) assigned the genus Neowollea Tawong 2021 to this order. Publication: Tawong W, Pongcharoen P, Pongpadung P, Ponza S. Validation of "Neowollea manoromense" Tawong, nom. inval. (Cyanophyta, Nostocaceae) from Thailand. Notulae Algarum 2021; 214:1-2.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Noctocales"; "Nootocales"; "Noslocales"; "Nostncales"; "Nostocacales"; "Nostochales"; "Nostococcales"; "Vostocales".
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: MCC: 19; CCALA: 18; SAG: 12; DSM: 4; NIVA-CYA: 2; CCAP: 2; ULC: 2; COI: 1; UTEX: 1; CCMP: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 17
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 17
Total number of child taxa: 23

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    [Aphanizomenonaceae]	preliminary entry that lacks crucial information
    Borzinemataceae Geitler 1942	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Calotrichaceae Cooke 1890	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Capsosiraceae Geitler 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Chlorogloeopsidaceae Mitra and Pandey 1967	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanomargaritaceae Shalygin et al. 2017	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Dapisostemonaceae Hentschke et al. 2016	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Fortieaceae" Komárek et al. 2014	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Gloeotrichiaceae Komárek et al. 2014	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Godleyaceae Hauer et al. 2014	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Heteroscytonemataceae Sendall and McGregor 2018	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nodulariaceae Elenkin 1916	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Nostocaceae Eichler 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    [Nostocales, not assigned to family]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis
    Rhizonemataceae Büdel and Kauff ex Lücking and Barrie 2014	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Scytonemaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Scytonemataceae Frank 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Stigonemataceae (Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Borzì 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), conserved name	correct name
    "Symphyonemataceae" Hoffmann et al. 2005	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Tolypothrichaceae Hauer et al. 2014	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Tolypotrichaceae corrig. Hauer et al. 2014	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Cyanophyceae Schaffner 1909

Assigned by: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.

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