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Taxon: Family Nephridiophagidae Sprague, 1970 (protist)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  Sprague, 1970, nom. zool.
Original name, rank & spelling:  Sprague, V. 1970: 328 ("new family"). ≡
Original use as a zoological name:  Sprague, V. 1970: 328 (-"idae"). [implicit]
Description/Diagnosis in English:  Sprague, V. 1970: 328 ("Spore without orifice or operculum.").

Attributes

Zoological name (: nom. zool.) Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 16 Jul 2019.

Types

Type: Nephridiophaga (Genus) Ivanić, 1937

Variants

Name in subsequent code of nomenclature: Nephridiophagaceae (Family) R. Radek, Letcher, Wijayaw., P.M.Kirk & K.D.Hyde (2018) Ref: N.N. Wijayawardene et al., 2018: 45. [inferred]
Name in current code of nomenclature: Nephridiophagaceae (Family) R. Radek, Letcher, Wijayaw., P.M.Kirk & K.D.Hyde (2018) Ref: N.N. Wijayawardene et al., 2018: 47. [inferred]

Synonyms

Vernacular name: nephridiophagids ([unranked])
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