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(25) Request for a binding decision on whether Geisleria Nitschke ( Ascomycota : Strigulaceae ) and Geissleria Lange‐Bert. & Metzeltin ( Bacillariophyceae : Naviculaceae ) are sufficiently alike to be confused
Author(s) -
Blanco Saúl,
Wetzel Carlos E.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.12705/643.24
Subject(s) - library science , biodiversity , citation , humanities , geography , computer science , art , ecology , biology
Geisleria Nitschke (1861) [Fungi] Nitschke (in Rabenhorst, Lich. Europ. Exsicc. 21: 574. 1861) described the genus Geisleria with a single species, G. sychnogoni oides Nitschke. The genus remained monotypic until 1954, when Servít (in Blumea 7: 594. 1954) published G. alpina Servít, and subsequently another three species have been proposed, although two of them (G. alpina and G. jamesii Swinscow) were transferred to more suitable genera, so that, apart from the generitype, only two more species are currently included in this genus, namely G. sbar baronis Servít and G. xylophila Vězda, both known only from their types and not recently studied (Aproot & al. in Lichenologist 46: 116. 2014). Proposals to synonymize Geisleria with Verrucaria Schrad. and Strigula Fr. have been criticized (Aproot & al., l.c.). Ciferri & Tomas (in Atti Ist. Bot. Univ. Lab. Crittog. Univ. Pavia, ser. 5, 10: 31, 59. 1953) erected the superfluous Geisleriomyces, based on the same type as Geisleria. The name Geisleria also denotes a genus of characoid fishes (Geisleria Gery in Vie & Milieu, Sér. C, Biol. Terrestre 12: 154. 1971). The lichen genus was named after a Dr: Geisler, a senior physician in Münster, Germany who had an interest in lichens (“Die Gattung trägt den Namen des um die westfälische Lichenen kunde höchst verdienten Oberstabsarztes [“Oberstaabsarztes”] Hrn. Geisler zu Münster”). Noteworthy, the genus Geiseleria Klotzsch (in Arch. Naturgesch. (Berlin) 7: 254. 1841) in Euphorbiaceae has been misspelled as Geisleria many times in the botanical literature (e.g.; Schomburgk, Reis. Br.-Guiana 3: 1186. 1848; Sagra, Icon. Pl. Fl. Cub.: 42. 1863). Geissleria Lange-Bert. & Metzeltin (1996) [Bacillarioph.] Geissleria Lange-Bert. & Metzeltin (in Iconogr. Diatomol. 2: 63. 1996) was created to accommodate Navicula sect. Annulatae Hustedt sensu emend. at the rank of genus. The name commemorates the phycologist Dr. Ursula Geissler (Freie Universität, Berlin). After recent additions (Novais & al. in Cryptog. Algol. 34: 117–148. 2013; Kulikovskiy & al. in Phytotaxa 177: 249–260. 2014), this genus currently comprises 78 species distributed worldwide.