Rise of subgen. Rhoicosphenula Lange-Bert. to the genus level, and description of a new Gomphosphenia s. s. species from Puerto Rico Author Saber, Abdullah A. Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia Square, Cairo 11566 (Egypt) and MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, Limnology and Phycology Section, Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, 38123 Trento (Italy) Author Angeli, Nicola MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, Limnology & Phycology Section, Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, I- 38123 Trento (Italy) Author Lange-Bertalot, Horst Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Biologicum, Max-von-Laue Straβe 13, 60438 Frankfurt (Germany) Author Kociolek, John P. Museum of Natural History and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 (United States) Author Spitale, Daniel MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, Limnology & Phycology Section, Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, I- 38123 Trento (Italy) Author Charles, Donald F. Patrick Center for Environmental Research, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19103 (United States) Author Cantonati, Marco MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, Limnology & Phycology Section, Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, I- 38123 Trento (Italy) and Patrick Center for Environmental Research, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19103 (United States) marco. cantonati @ muse. it (corresponding author) cantonati@muse.it text Cryptogamie, Algologie 2021 2021-09-29 20 13 217 229 http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2021v42a13 journal article 245033 10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2021v42a13 82ddef57-2a25-4cce-b92c-cbc85f507f07 1776-0992 7819267 Rhoicosphenula paradoxa (Lange-Bert.) Lange-Bert., Kociolek, A.A.Saber & Cantonati , comb. nov. ( Figs 2 , 3 ) Gomphosphenia paradoxa Lange-Bert. , Nova Hedwigia , 246, pls I-III (1995). REGISTRATION. — http://phycobank.org/102719 Distribution This is the type species of this still monotypic genus. It was collected from the Neotropical, black-water River Tec in Venezuela , at 1200 m a.s.l., in the surroundings of the Roraima Tepui, a table-top mountain formed by remains of a large sandstone plateau that once covered the granite bedrock. Besides R. paradoxa comb. nov. , the type material includes several representatives of the genera Eunotia , Actinella , and Brachysira , as well as other species indicating high humicacids content.