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Genus Pirumella

Pirumella Bolli, 1980, p.528.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic senior synonym: Pithonella, by implication in Keupp (1981, p.44), who considered the "type species" of Pirumella, Pirumella edithvincentiae, to be a taxonomic junior synonym of Pithonella (now Pirumella) thayeri - however, Lentin and Williams (1993, p.577) retained Pirumella. Taxonomic junior synonym: Obliquipithonella, by implication in Lentin and Williams (1985, p.383), who illegitimately included the "type species" of Pirumella, Pirumella edithvincentiae (as a taxonomic junior synonym of Obliquipithonella thayeri) in Obliquipithonella.

COMMENTS: Calcareous dinoflagellate genus. Following this taxonomic synonymy, Obliquipithonella must continue to be considered a taxonomic junior synonym of Pirumella.

TYPE: Bolli, 1980, pl.4, figs.1-2, as Pirumella edithvincentiae.


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