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Paraphyletic? taxon: Order Protostelida Olive & Stoianovitch, 1966 (protozoan)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  L.S. Olive & C. Stoianovitch, 1966, nom. zool., orth. accept.
Original name, rank & spelling:  Olive, L.S. & Stoianovitch, C. 1966. J. Protozool. 13 (1): 171 ("new order").
Original use as a zoological name:  op. cit.: 171 ("Protozoa").
Emended diagnosis (emend.):  Cavalier-Smith, T., Chao, E.E.-Y. & Oates, B. 2004. Europ. J. Protistol. 40: 44 ("Olive and Stoianovitch 1966 emend. Revised diagnosis").

Attributes

Zoological name (: nom. zool.) Ref: L.S. Olive & C. Stoianovitch, 1966. J. Protozool. 13 (1): 171. [new]
Acceptable "imperfect" original spelling (: orth. accept.) [zool.] Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 2 Feb 2014, 6 Jan 2024.

Types

Type: Protostelium (Genus) Olive & Stoianovitch, 1960 Ref: L.S. Olive & C. Stoianovitch, 1966 [inferred]

Variants

Different rank: Protostelea (Class) Alexopoulos & Mims, 1979
Different rank: Protostelia (Subclass) Olive, 1970
Name in former code of nomenclature: Protosteliales (Order) L.S. Olive & Stoian. ex P.M.Kirk, P.F. Cannon & J.C. David (2001) Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2013(2012): table 6 (p. 146). [inferred]
Subsequent spelling: Protosteliida (Order) Olive & Stoianovitch, 1966 Ref: L.S. Olive & C. Stoianovitch, 1966 [inferred]
Former spelling: Protosteliida (Order) Olive & Stoianovitch, 1966 Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2013(2012): table 6 (p. 146). [inferred]
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