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Taxon: Class Opalinea Wenyon, 1926 (protist)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  C.M. Wenyon, 1926, nom. zool., nom. emend.
Original name & rank:  Wenyon, C.M. 1926. Protozoology. William Wood and Company, New York: 159 ("Opalinata").
Original use as a zoological name:  op. cit.: 156 ("Protozoa").
Original rank:  op. cit.: 159.
Subsequent spelling:  Cavalier-Smith, T. 1993a. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 40 (5): 614.
Description/Diagnosis in English:  loc. cit.
Emended diagnosis (emend.):  op. cit.: 614. ("Wenyon 1926 emend.").
Emended diagnosis (emend.):  Cavalier-Smith, T. & Scoble, J.M. 2013(2012). Eur. J. Protistol. 49 (3): table 1 (p. 333). ("Wenyon, 1926 stat. n. Cavalier-Smith, 1993 em.").

Attributes

Zoological name (: nom. zool.) Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 21 Feb 2016.

Variants

Name in former code of nomenclature: Opalinea (Class) Wenyon (1926) Ref: M.A. Ruggiero et al., 2015b: table 2 (p. 16). [inferred]
Former spelling: Opalinatea (Class) Wenyon, 1926 Ref: M.A. Ruggiero et al., 2015b: table 2 (p. 16). [inferred]

Synonyms

Including: Proteromonadea (Class) Caval.-Sm. (1997) Ref: M.A. Ruggiero et al., 2015b: table 2 (p. 16). [inferred]
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