Name: Stigonema scytonematoides Gardner 1927

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: scy.to.ne.ma.to.i’des. N.L. neut. n. Scytonema, 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. neut. adj. scytonematoides, resembling Scytonema

Pronunciation, gender: sky-to-ne-ma-to-I-des, neuter

Holotype: 12501

Valid publication: Gardner NL. New Myxophyceae from Porto Rico. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 1927; 7:1-144.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Stigonema Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Assigned by: Gardner NL. New Myxophyceae from Porto Rico. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 1927; 7:1-144.

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Record number: 42273
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