''Bicosoeca'' is a genus of bicosoecids in the family Bicosoecaceae. It is the

type genus In biological taxonomy, the type genus is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name. Zoological nomenclature According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearing type of a nominal ...

of its family. The name ''Bicosoeca'', described by James-Clark in 1866, is derived from Greek roots (, vase, bowl, plus , inhabit). The philologically preferable compound would be ''Bicoeca'', as "corrected" by

Stein Stein is a German, Yiddish and Norwegian word meaning "stone" and "pip" or "kernel". It stems from the same Germanic root as the English word stone. It may refer to: Places In Austria * Stein, a neighbourhood of Krems an der Donau, Lower Aust ...

in 1878 and followed by most subsequent authors. However, according to the

ICBN The ''International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (ICN) is the set of rules and recommendations dealing with the formal botanical names that are given to plants, fungi and a few other groups of organisms, all those "trad ...

and ICZN, the original spelling of the name cannot be considered incorrect and it must be used in its original form.

Species

* '' B. accreta'' Hibberd 1978 * '' B. acuminata'' Stokes 1885 * '' Bicosoeca antarctica'' Pankow 1991 * '' B. dissimilis'' Stokes 1885 * '' B. lauterbornei'' * '' B. lepteca'' Stokes 1885 * '' B. leptostoma'' Stokes 1885 * '' B. longipes'' Stokes 1885 * '' B. mignotii'' Moestrup, Thomsen & Hibberd 1992 * '' B. phiala'' Stokes 1895 * '' B. ruttneri'' Wawrik * '' B. socialis'' Lemmermann 1908 non Lauterborn 1894 non Kent 1871 * '' B. starmachii'' Hamar 1979 * '' B. szabadosii'' Hamar * '' B. tenuis'' Kent 1880 * ''Bicosoeca'' section ''Poteriodendron'' (von Stein 1878) Bourrelly 1951 ** '' B. dinobryoidea'' Lemmermann 1914 ** '' B. petiolata'' (von Stein 1878) Pringsheim 1947 * ''Bicosoeca'' section ''Stephanocodon'' (Pascher 1942) Bourrelly 1951 ** '' B. campanulata'' (Lackey 1942) Bourrelly 1953 em. Skuja 1956 ** '' Bicosoeca irregularis'' (Pascher 1942) Bourrelly 1951 ** '' B. socialis'' Lauterborn 1894 non Lemmermann 1908 ** '' B. stellata'' Bourrelly 1951 * ''Bicosoeca'' section ''Codomonas'' (Lackey 1939) Bourrelly 1951 ** '' B. ainikkiae'' Järnefelt 1956 ** '' B. alaskana'' Hilliard 1971 ** '' B. annulata'' (Lackey 1939) Bourrelly 1951 ** '' B. crystallina'' Skuja 1956 ** '' B. cylindrica'' (Lackey 1939) Bourrelly 1951 ** '' B. depoucquesiana'' Bourrelly 1951 ** '' B. fottii'' Bourrelly 1951 ** '' B. kenaiensis'' (Hilliard 1971) Yubukia et al. 2015 ** '' B. mitra'' Fott 1946 ** '' B. paropsis'' Skuja 1956 ** '' B. planctonica'' Kisselew 1931 ** '' B. turrigera'' Nygaard 1949 ** '' B. urceolata'' Fott 1941 * ''Bicosoeca'' section ''Eubicoeca'' Bourrelly 1951 ** '' B. borealis'' Hilliard 1971 ** '' B. conica'' Lemmermann 1914 ** '' B. epiphytica'' Hilliard 1971 ** '' B. eurystoma'' Hilliard 1971 ** '' B. exilis'' Penard 1921 ** '' B. gracilipes'' James-Clark 1867 ** '' B. kepneri'' Reynolds 1927 ** '' B. lacustris'' James-Clark 1867 ** '' B. maris'' Picken 1941 ** '' B. mediterranea'' Pavillard 1916 ** '' B. oculata'' Zacharias 1894 ** '' B. ovata'' Lemmermann 1914 ** '' B. parva'' Hilliard 1971 ** '' B. pontica'' Valkanov 1970 ** '' B. synoica'' Skuja 1956 ** '' B. vacillans''

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