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Rejection of the generic name Dendrocystis Rees, 1962, and its replacement by Arborocystis nov.nom. Protozoa: Gregarinomorpha

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

B. Rees
Affiliation:
South-Western Forensic Science Laboratory, Bristol, England and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
M. J. Howell
Affiliation:
South-Western Forensic Science Laboratory, Bristol, England and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Extract

Arborocystis nov.nom. is proposed to replace Dendrocystis Rees, 1962, a junior homonym of Dendrocystis Bather, 1889.

The authors wish to thank Dr David L. Pawson, Division of Marine Invertebrates, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., for furnishing data from Barrande (1887).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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