Species "Scytonema cortex"

Name: "Scytonema cortex" Wood 1869

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: cor’tex. L. masc./fem. n. cortex, bark (nominative in apposition)

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: sky-to-NE-ma KOR-tex, neuter

Original publication: Wood HC. Prodromus of a study of the freshwater algae of North America. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 1869; 11:119-145.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Scytonema Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Assigned by: Wood HC. Prodromus of a study of the freshwater algae of North America. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 1869; 11:119-145.

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Record number: 55100

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