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Crown clade: "Amorphea" Adl et al. 2012, nom. cl. inval. (eukaryote)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  S.M. Adl et al., 2012, nom. cl. nov., nom. cl. praeinit.
Original clade name & spelling:  Adl, S.M., Simpson, A.G.B., Lane, C.E., Lukeš, J., Bass, D., Bowser, S.S., Brown, M.W., Burki, F., Dunthorn, M., Hampl, V., Heiss, A., Hoppenrath, M., Lara, E., Le Gall, L., Lynn, D.H., McManus, H., Mitchell, E.A.D., Mozley-Stanridge, S.E., Parfrey, L.W., Pawlowski, J., Rueckert, S., Shadwick, L., Schoch, C.L., Smirnov, A. & Spiegel, F.W. 2012. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 59 (5): 430 ("clade", new taxon").
Original definition [PhyloCode]:  op. cit.: 430 ("node-based phylogenetic definition").

Etymology

Greek (pref.) a, without. Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2012: 430.
Greek (subst. fem.) μορφή [morphḗ] (gen.: μορφῆς), form. Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2012: 430.
Greek (subst. fem.) μορφή [morphḗ] (gen.: μορφῆς), shape. Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2012: 430.

Attributes

Pre-starting-point clade name (nom. cl. inval.[: praeinit.]) [PhyloCode: Note 6.2.1 ([1984-]<2020)] Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 3 Aug 2023.

Variants

Established (clade) name: Amorphea (Clade) Adl et al. 2012 [Simpson, Medina & Adl 2020] Ref: A.G.B. Simpson et al., 2020: 99.

Synonyms

Accepted name: torcids ([unranked]) Cavalier-Smith, 2021 Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2022(2021) (alt.): fig. 11. [new]
Informal name: Unikonta ([unranked]) Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2012: 430. [new]
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