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Monotypic taxon: Subclass Dictyostelia Olive, 1970 (protist)

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Authorship

SN2000 author citation	:			L.S. Olive, 1970, nom. zool.
Original name, rank & spelling	:			Olive, L.S. 1970. Bot. Rev. 36 (1): 70 ("Dictyostelia L. Olive Subcl. Nov. (Dictyosteliidae)"].
Original use as a zoological name	:			op. cit.: 61 ("equivalent botanical taxa are given in parentheses").
Description/Diagnosis in English	:			op. cit.: 70-71.

Attributes

Zoological name (: nom. zool.) [ICZN]

Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 2 Oct 2022.

Variants

Different rank	:	*Dictyostela* ([unranked])
Different rank	:	*Dictyostelia* (Superclass) Olive, 1970
Different rank	:	*Dictyosteliida* (Order) L. Olive, 1970
Current rank	:	*Dictyostelea* (Class) Cavalier-Smith, 1993		Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2013(2012): table 6 (p. 146). [inferred]
Former unranked name	:	*Dictyostelia* ([unranked]) Olive, 1970		Ref: L.S. Olive, 1982: 523. [implicit]
Preferred termination	:	*Dictyosteliia* (Subclass)

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