Name: Pseudoholopedia convoluta (Brébisson ex Kützing 1849) Elenkin 1938

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Merismopedia convoluta Brébisson ex Kützing 1849

Etymology: con.vo.lu’ta. L. fem. part. adj. convoluta, coiled, the coiled Heliorestis

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … kon-wo-LU-ta, feminine

Valid publication: Elenkin AA. Monographia algarum cyanophycearum aquidulcium et terrestrium in finibus URSS inventarum. Pars specialis (Systematica). Fasc. I. Sumptibus Academiae Sicentarum URSS, Mosqua & Leningrad, 1938.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Microcrocis gigas (Ryppowa 1925) Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Merismopedia gigas Ryppowa 1925	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    "Pseudoholopedia convoluta" (Brébisson ex Kützing 1849) Elenkin 1936	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Merismopedia convoluta Brébisson ex Kützing 1849	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Pseudoholopedia (Ryppowa 1925) Elenkin 1938. Publication: Elenkin AA. Monographia algarum cyanophycearum aquidulcium et terrestrium in finibus URSS inventarum. Pars specialis (Systematica). Fasc. I. Sumptibus Academiae Sicentarum URSS, Mosqua & Leningrad, 1938.
  • ⏰ According to Geitler (1932), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Microcrocis gigas (Ryppowa 1925) Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995. Publication: Geitler L. Cyanophyceae. In: Rabenhorst LE (eds), Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Ed. 2. Vol. 14, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig, 1932, p. 1-1196.
  • ⏰ According to Geitler (1932), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Merismopedia gigas Ryppowa 1925. Publication: Geitler L. Cyanophyceae. In: Rabenhorst LE (eds), Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Ed. 2. Vol. 14, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig, 1932, p. 1-1196.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Pseudoholopedia convoluta var. subsalina Proshkina-Lavrenko 1951	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Pseudoholopedia (Ryppowa 1925) Elenkin 1938

Assigned by: Elenkin AA. Monographia algarum cyanophycearum aquidulcium et terrestrium in finibus URSS inventarum. Pars specialis (Systematica). Fasc. I. Sumptibus Academiae Sicentarum URSS, Mosqua & Leningrad, 1938.

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Record number: 18654