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Order Pelonematales
Name: Pelonematales Skuja 1956
Etymology: Pe.lo.ne.ma.ta’les. N.L. fem. pl. n. Pelonematales, the Pelonema order
Pronunciation, gender: pe-lo-ne-ma-TA-les, feminine
Type genus: Pelonema Lauterborn 1915
Valid publication: Skuja H. Taxonomische und biologische Studien über das Phytoplankton schwedischer Binnengewässer. Nova acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis ser. 4 1956; 16:404.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 🧕 Skuja (1956) assigned this order to the class Cyanophyceae Hauck 1885. Publication: Skuja H. Taxonomische und biologische Studien über das Phytoplankton schwedischer Binnengewässer. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, Series IV 1956; 16:1-404.
- 🧒 Skuja (1956) assigned the genus Pelonema Lauterborn 1915 to this order. Publication: Skuja H. Taxonomische und biologische Studien über das Phytoplankton schwedischer Binnengewässer. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, Series IV 1956; 16:1-404.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pelonevnatales".
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Pelonemataceae Skuja 1956 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Peloplocaceae Beger 1957 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) synonym
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Parent taxon: Chroococcophyceae Hollerbach et al. 1953
Assigned by:
Aleksovski B, Krstić S, Guiry MD. The names of phyla and classes of blue-green algae (cyanobacteria, cyanophytes) and a typified name: Cyanobacteriophyta Oren, Mareš et Rippka. Fottea 2025; 25:212-217. 
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Record number: 15236
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