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Taxon: Phylum Dinoflagellata Engl. (1903) (protist)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  (O. Bütschli, 1885) A. Engler, 1903, nom. bot., nom. descript., nom. emend.
Original name:  Bütschli, O. 1885. In Protozoa. Abt. II: Mastigophora. In Bronn, H.G. (ed.), Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild.. C.F. Winter'sche Verlagshandlung, Leipzig und Heidelberg.: [906].
Original use as a botanical name:  Engler, A. 1903. Syllabus (ed. 3): 8. ("Planktonpflanzen").
Subsequent rank:  op. cit.: XXIV ("Dinoflagellatae"), 8 ("Dinoflagellata"). ("Abteilung").
Subsequent spelling:  Luria, S.E., Gould, S.J. & Singer, S. 1981. Benjamin/Cummings Pub. Co., California: 755.

Attributes

Typographical error (orth. inval.: orth. null.) [ICBN/ICN, 2018: Art. 61.1] Ref: A. Engler, 1903. Syllabus (ed. 3): [XXVII] (Errata: "S. 8 lies: Dinoflagellatae anstatt Dinoflagellata").
Botanical name (: nom. bot.) Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 3 Mar 2016.
Descriptive name (: nom. descript.) [ICBN/ICN, 2012: Sect. 1, Art. 16.1(b) (>family)] Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 3 Mar 2016.
Emendation (nom. emend.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 33.2.1] Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 3 Mar 2016.

Variants

Different rank: Dinoflagellata (Subphylum) Bütschli, 1885
Different rank: Dinoflagellata (Subphylum) Bütschli, 1885
Different rank: Dinoflagellata (Class) Bütschli, 1885
Different rank: Dinoflagellida (Order)
Current rank: Dinoflagellata (Infraphylum) Bütschli, 1885 Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2000 [indirect]
Current rank: Dinoflagellata (Superclass) Bütschli, 1885 Ref: M.A. Ruggiero et al., 2015b: table 2 (p. 15). [inferred]

Synonyms

Accepted name: Dinomastigota (Phylum) Margulis, 1996
Synonymous name: Dinomastigota (Phylum) Margulis, 1996
Synonymous name: Dinomorpha (Superphylum) Ivakhnenko, 2003
Synonymous name: Peridinea (Phylum) Ehrenberg, 1830
In (pro parte): Dinozoa (Phylum) Cavalier-Smith, 1981
Vernacular name: dinoflagellates ([unranked])
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