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Taxon: Kingdom Chromista Caval.-Sm. (1981) - chromists (eukaryote)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  T. Cavalier-Smith, 1981, nom. descript.
Original name, rank & spelling:  Cavalier-Smith, T. 1981. BioSystems 14 (3-4): App. (p. 478: "(Cavalier-Smith, regnum novum)").
Description/Diagnosis in Latin:  op. cit.: App. (pp. 478-479).
Description/Diagnosis in English:  op. cit.: App. (p. 479).
Emended diagnosis (emend.):  Cavalier-Smith, T. 1993b. Microbiological Reviews 57 (4): table 2 (p. 961).

Validation

Validated name: Euchromista (Subkingdom) Cavalier-Sm. (1993) Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1993b: 988. [new]

Attributes

Emendation of suffix/termination (: nom. emend.) Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1989[1990]. In J.C. Green, B.S.C. Leadbeater & W.L. Diver (eds.), Syst. Assoc. Spec. Vol. (no. 38): 396 ("I now propose that all previously existing suffices for chromist classes be replaced by -ea or modified to end in -ea, to indicate membership of the kingdom Chromista rather than the kingdoms Plantae or Fungi."). [new]
Botanical name (: nom. bot.) Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1981. BioSystems 14 (3-4): App. (p. 478: "botanical"). [new]
Descriptive name (: nom. descript.) [ICBN/ICN, 2012: Sect. 1, Art. 16.1(b) (>family)] Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 13 Feb 2016.

Variants

Different rank: Chromobionta (Infrakingdom)
Former unranked name: stramenopiles ([unranked]) Patterson, 1990, nom. vernac. Ref: Berkeley, 2001b

Synonyms

Synonymous name: Chromalveolata (Supergroup) Adl et al., 2005 Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith et al., 2015: 354 (sensu Cavalier-Smith, 2010a). [implicit]
Synonymous name: Chromalveolata (Kingdom) Adl et al., 2005 Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith et al., 2015: 354 (sensu Cavalier-Smith, 2010a). [implicit]
Synonymous name: Stramenopila (Kingdom) (Patterson, 1989) Beakes, 1998
Synonymous name: Straminipila (Kingdom) Dick, 2001
Synonymous name (objective): Chromobiota (Kingdom) Jeffrey, 1971
Accepted name (pro parte): Stramenopila ([unranked])
Including: Euchromista (Subkingdom) Cavalier-Sm. (1993)

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: chromists
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