Name: Chroococcoideae corrig. West 1904

Category: Subfamily

Proposed as: new subfamily

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Chroococcoideae, the Chroococcus subfamily

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Chroococcus Nägeli 1849

Valid publication: West GS. A treatise on the British freshwater algae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1904.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Chroococceae West 1904	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])

• Notes:
  • 🧕 West (1904) assigned this subfamily to the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. Publication: West GS. A treatise on the British freshwater algae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1904.
  • 🧒 West (1904) assigned the genus Chroococcus Nägeli 1849 to this subfamily. Publication: West GS. A treatise on the British freshwater algae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1904.
  • 🧒 West (1904) assigned the genus Synechococcus Nägeli 1849 to this subfamily. Publication: West GS. A treatise on the British freshwater algae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1904.
  • 🧒 West (1904) assigned the genus Merismopedia Meyen 1839 to this subfamily. Publication: West GS. A treatise on the British freshwater algae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1904.
  • 🧒 West (1904) assigned the genus Tetrapedia Reinsch 1867 to this subfamily. Publication: West GS. A treatise on the British freshwater algae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1904.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Chroococeoideae".
  • 😴 The taxonomic category of this name is not currently in use in the LPSN hierarchy. For this reason, this name does not have a parent taxon and does not have child taxa.

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Record number: 51055