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Taxon: Class Raphidophyceae Chadef. ex P.C.Silva (1980) - raphidophytes (protist)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  M. Chadefaud, 1950 ex P.C. Silva, 1980, nom. bot.
Original name:  Chadefaud, M. 1950.
Emended diagnosis (emend.):  Silva, P.C. 1980.

Validation

Validated name: Raphidophycidae (Subclass) Caval.-Sm. (2013) Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith & J.M. Scoble, 2013(2012): 342. [new]

Attributes

Botanical name (: nom. bot.) [ICBN/ICN] Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith & J.M. Scoble, 2013(2012). Eur. J. Protistol. 49 (3): 332, 342. [inferred]
Allowable contraction [ICBN/ICN, 2012: Art. 16.4 (>order)] Ref: J. McNeill et al. (eds.), 2012. Int. Code Nomencl. (Melbourne Code): Art. 16.4 Ex. 6.

Types

Automatically typified subtaxon: Raphidophycidae (Subclass) Caval.-Sm. (2013) Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith & J.M. Scoble, 2013(2012): 342. [inferred]
Type: Raphidomonas (Genus) F. Stein (1878), nom. cons. prop. Ref: J. McNeill et al. (eds.), 2012: Art. 16.4 Ex. 6.

Variants

Different rank: Raphidomonadida (Order) Heywood & Leedale, 1983
Subsequent spelling: Raphidomonadea (Class) Caval.-Sm. (1986), orth. inval. Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1986: 339. [new] [implicit]
Different spelling: Raphidiophyceae (Class)
Different spelling: Rhaphidophyceae (Class) nom. null.
Former spelling: Raphidomonadea (Class) Caval.-Sm. (1986), orth. inval. Ref: M.A. Ruggiero et al., 2015b: table 2 (p. 19). [inferred]

Synonyms

Synonymous name (objective): Chloromonadida (Order) Ref: J.O. Corliss, 1982: 495.
Synonymous name (objective): Chloromonadophyceae (Class) Ref: P. Heywood, 1989: 280.
Including: Nucleohelea (Class) Cavalier-Smith, 1993 Ref: M.A. Ruggiero et al., 2015b: table 2 (p. 19). [indirect]
Vernacular name: raphidophytes ([unranked])

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: raphidophytes
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