Chroodactylon filamentosum Ganesan, J.A.West & Necchi ex Levanets & Burova, 2025

Levanets, Anatoliy & Unit, Olga Burova, 2025, Nomenclatural changes in the genus Chroodactylon Hansgirg (Stylonemataceae, Stylonematophyceae), Notulae Algarum 366, pp. 1-5 : 1-2

Chroodactylon filamentosum Ganesan, J.A.West & Necchi ex Levanets & Burova , sp. nov.

Designations: “ Chroodactylon filamentosum ” Ganesan, J.A.West & Necchi , nom. inval. ( Ganesan & al. 2018: 7); “ Asterocytis filamentosa ” Kant & Gupta , nom. inval. ( Kant & Gupta 1998: 184, pl. 84: fig. 2, as ‘ Asterocystis ’).

Description: Thallus branched, tufted, embedded in mucilage, cells rectangular, arranged in single row, chloroplast excentric, stellate, pyrenoids one or two in each chloroplast ( Kant & Gupta 1998: 184, from key to the species of the Asterocy[s]tis genus).

Holotype: [icon!] Kant & Gupta 1998: pl. 84: fig. 2 (reproduced here as Fig. 1).

Type locality: Ladakh, India.

Registration (of species name): http://phycobank.org/105374

Note: The specimens from Ladakh were collected from nine different sites ( Kant & Gupta 1998: map on p. 22; habitats description on pp. 26–27), and it is not clearly indicated from which of these nine sites, their “new species” was collected.

Moshkova & Frolova (1983) published an account of the red and bown algae of Ukrainian SSR as vol. 12 in a series of freshwater algal identification manuals, where the designation “ Chroodactylon halophilum” (Hansgirg) Moshkova was proposed. However, this proposal was invalid as a full and direct citation of place of publication of the basionym was not provided (Art. 41.5).