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Genus Meristaulax

"Meristaulax" Brenner, 1988, p.65.

STATUS: Name illegitimate - senior homonym: Meristaulax Sarjeant, 1984a.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic senior synonym: Cribroperidinium, by implication in Jan du Chêne et al. (1986a, p.76) and Lentin and Williams (1993, p.423), who listed Meristaulax Sarjeant as a taxonomic junior synonym of Cribroperidinium on the basis of the morphology of Sarjeant's lectotype of Meristaulax granulata, which is now the type of Meristaulax Brenner.

COMMENTS: Brenner (1988, p.65) cited this genus as "Meristaulax Sarjeant 1984". However, he listed as "type species" "Meristaulax granulata Sarjeant 1984" with the specimen illustrated by Sarjeant (1984a, pl.3, figs.3-4) as holotype, and clearly separated this species from Meristaulax granulata (Klement, 1960) Sarjeant, 1984a, with Klement (1960, pl.4, figs.10-11; text-figs.18-19) as type, which he cited separately (Brenner, 1988, p.35). Thus, Brenner (1988, p.65) effectively created a new genus, Meristaulax Brenner, 1988, which is validly published since Brenner (1988, p.65-66) provided a description under the single formal species Meristaulax granulata Brenner, listed a type and presented illustrations.

TYPE: Sarjeant, 1984a, pl.3, figs.3-4, text-fig.3, as Meristaulax granulata.


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