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Monotypic taxon: Class Diplonemea Cavalier-Smith, 1993 (protozoan)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  T. Cavalier-Smith, 1993
Original name:  Cavalier-Smith, T. 1993b. Microbiological Reviews 57 (4): 986.
Original rank:  loc. cit.
Original spelling:  loc. cit.
Description/Diagnosis in English:  loc. cit.

Validation

Validated name: Diplonemida (Order) Cavalier-Smith, 1993 Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1993b: 986. [new]

Types

Type, by original designation: Diplonema (Genus) Griessmann, 1913 Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1993b: 986. [new] [implicit]

Variants

Different rank: Diplonemia (Superclass) (Cavalier-Smith, 1993) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
Different rank: Diplonemidae (Family) Cavalier-Smith, 1993
Different rank: diplonemids ([unranked]) Ref: K. Vickerman, 2000: 1157.
Former rank: Diplonemia (Subphylum) Cavalier-Smith, 1993 Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2022(2021): table 1 (p. 520). [inferred]
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