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Genus Pterococcus

"Pterococcus" Lohmann, 1904, p.47.

STATUS: Name illegitimate - senior homonyms: Pterococcus Pallas, 1773 and Pterococcus Hasskarl, 1842. Substitute name: Coccopterum.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic senior synonym: Nematosphaeropsis, by implication in Reid (1977, p.592) and Fensome et al. (1993b, p.93), who included the "type species" of Pterococcus, Pterococcus labyrinthus, in Nematosphaeropsis.

TYPE: Ostenfeld, 1903, fig.127, as Pterosperma labyrinthus.


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