Name: Sirocoleum amorphum (Berkeley ex Gomont 1892) Umezaki and Watanabe 1994

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Dasygloea amorpha Berkeley ex Gomont 1892

Etymology: a.mor’phum. N.L. neut. adj. amorphum, without form, shapeless; from Gr. neut. adj. amorphon

Pronunciation, gender: … a-MOR-p^hum, neuter

Valid publication: Umezaki I, Watanabe M. Enumeration of the Cyanophyta (blue-green algae) of Japan 1. Chroococcales and Oscillatoriales. Japanese Journal of Phycology 1994; 42:175-219.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Dasygloea amorpha Berkeley ex Gomont 1892

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Dasygloea amorpha Berkeley ex Gomont 1892	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • ❗ Sirocoleum amorphum is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Sirocoleum.
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Parent taxon: Sirocoleum Kützing ex Gomont 1892

Assigned by: Umezaki I, Watanabe M. Enumeration of the Cyanophyta (blue-green algae) of Japan 1. Chroococcales and Oscillatoriales. Japanese Journal of Phycology 1994; 42:175-219.

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Record number: 27907