Problems associated with the taxonomic validation of the cyanobacterial genus Halothece by Margheri et al. 2008, Phycologia 47: 477–486

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Oren A. 2009. Problems associated with the taxonomic validation of the cyanobacterial genus Halothece by Margheri et al. 2008. Phycologia 47: 477–486. Phycologia 48: 313–314. DOI: 10:2216/09-33.1In their paper on ‘The taxonomic validation of the cyanobacterial genus Halothece’, Margheri et al. (2008) provided formal descriptions of Halothece californica gen. et sp. nov. in the protologue format of a description under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokarotes (ICNP) and as a Latin diagnosis as required by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. The authors intended to list all data needed for valid publication of the names of the new genus and species under the rules of both codes. This commentary exposes a number of problems connected to the authors' proposal for the valid description of the name H. californica under the rules of the ICNP.