Name: Pleurocapsa gloeocapsoides Setchell and Gardner 1918

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: gloe.o.caps.o.i’des. N.L. fem. n. Gloeocapsa, a cyanobacterial genus; L. adj. suff. -oides, resembling, similar; from Gr. neut. adj. suff. -eides, resembling, similar; from Gr. neut. n. eîdos, that which is seen, form, shape, figure; N.L. fem. adj. gloeocapsoides, resembling Gloeocapsa

Pronunciation, gender: glo͡e-o-kaps-o-I-des, feminine

Holotype: 4119

Valid publication: Gardner NL. New Pacific Coast Marine Algae II. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 1918; 6:465.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Myxosarcina gloeocapsoides (Setchell and Gardner 1918) Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995

Parent taxon: Pleurocapsa Thuret 1885

Assigned by: Gardner NL. New Pacific Coast Marine Algae II. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 1918; 6:465.

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Record number: 27772
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