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Monotypic taxon: Class Dictyostelea Cavalier-Smith, 1993 (protist)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  (L.S. Olive, 1970) T. Cavalier-Smith, 1993, nom. zool., nom. emend.
Original name:  Olive, L.S. 1970. Bot. Rev. 36 (1): 70. [subclass "Dictyostelia", nom. zool.].
Original use as a zoological name:  Cavalier-Smith, T. 1993b. Microbiological Reviews 57 (4): table 4 (p. 971). [implicit]
Unavailable subsequent rank:  Hawksworth, D.L., Sutton, B.C. & Ainsworth, G.C. (eds.) 1983. Dict. Fungi (ed. 7): 121. ["Dictyosteliomycetes", nom. bot., sine descr. Lat.].
Subsequent rank (orig. spell.):  Cavalier-Smith, T. 1993b. Microbiological Reviews 57 (4): table 4 (p. 971: "Lister, 1909 stat. nov.").
Incorrect (rank-group) authorship:  Lister, J.J. 1909. In E.R. Lankester (ed.), A Treatise on Zoology 1 (1): 65 ("Order"[=Family], "Dictyosteliaceae"). ≡

Attributes

Emendation of suffix/termination (: nom. emend.) Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 3 Oct 2022.
Zoological name (: nom. zool.) Ref: P.M. Kirk et al. (eds.), 2001. Dict. Fungi (ed. 9): 155 ("zool.").

Types

Nominotypical taxon of: Dictyostelia (Superclass) Olive, 1970

Variants

Different rank: Dictyosteliida (Order) L. Olive, 1970
Former rank: Dictyostelia (Subclass) Olive, 1970 Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2013(2012): table 6 (p. 146). [inferred]
Name in former code of nomenclature: Dictyosteliomycetes (Class) Doweld (2001) Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2013(2012): table 6 (p. 146). [inferred]
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