{{Short description|Genus of algae}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Hormotila | image = Hormotila mucigena pl 8.jpg | authority = A.A. Borzì, 1883 | type_species = ''Hormotila mucigena'' | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision_ref = <ref name=AB_g43410/> | subdivision = * ''Hormotila blennista'' * ''Hormotila mucigena'' }}
'''''Hormotila''''' is a genus of green algae in the family Chaetophoraceae.<ref name=AB_g43410>{{AlgaeBase genus|name=Hormotila|id=43410|access-date=2022-02-25}}</ref> The genus was circumscribed by Antonino Borzì in 1883.<ref name=Wujek>{{cite journal|doi=10.4490/algae.2016.31.4.16 |title=What is the real ''Hormotila''? (Chlorophyceae) |date=2016 |last1=Wujek |first1=Daniel E. |last2=Wynne |first2=Michael J. |journal=Algae |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=85–90 |bibcode=2016Algae..31...85W |doi-access=free }}</ref>
The type species of ''Hormotila'', ''Hormotila mucigena'', as originally illustrated by Borzì, was a heterogenous assemblage of different algae. Some of his figures showed cells in laminated layers of mucilage, reminiscent of ''Gloeocystis'' or ''Urococcus''. In other figures, the cells were in branched, tubular layers of mucilage. Still other figures showed figures reminiscent of ''Oocystis'', ''Ankistrodesmus'' or ''Elakatothrix''. In 2016, Daniel E. Wujek and Michael J. Wynne redefined the genus by emending the description of the type species to only include the second sense, i.e. cells in branched tubes.<ref name=Wujek/>
==Former family== <!--There's a redirect here, so fix if changing the section heading.--> ''Hormotila'' was formerly the type genus of the family Hormotilaceae. {{As of|2022|March}}, AlgaeBase no longer included any genera in the family,<ref name=AB_t4970>{{AlgaeBase taxon|name=Hormotilaceae|id=4970|access-date=2022-02-25}}</ref> although some sources listed the family but without the type genus.<ref name=IRMN22>{{Citation |mode=cs1 |last1=IRMNG |date=2022 |title=IRMNG taxon details Hormotilaceae |website=Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |url=https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106430 |access-date=2022-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202113535/https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106430 |archive-date=2022-02-02 }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|1}}
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