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Genus Cyclonephelium

Cyclonephelium Deflandre and Cookson, 1955, p.285.

EMENDATIONS: Cookson and Eisenack, 1962b, p.493-494; Williams and Downie, 1966c, p.223; Ioannides et al., 1977, p.450; Sarjeant and Stover, 1978, p.51; Stover and Evitt, 1978, p.35; Dörhöfer and Davies, 1980, p.41.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic junior synonyms: Circulodinium, according to Davey (1978, p.894) - however, Jansonius (1986, p.204) retained Circulodinium as a separate genus; Tenua Eisenack, according to Sarjeant and Stover (1978, p.49) - however, Sarjeant (1985a, p.93) retained Tenua Eisenack as a separate genus.

COMMENTS: Cyclonephelium was a not validly published in Deflandre and Cookson (1954, p.1237), since these authors did not provide a description. Whorlizonates Sung Tzechen and Lee Manying, 1976, p.55, may be a taxonomic junior synonym of Cyclonephelium (J. Jansonius, personal communication).

TYPE: Deflandre and Cookson, 1955, pl.2, fig.12, as Cyclonephelium compactum.


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