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Genus Acanthaulax

"Acanthaulax" Sarjeant, 1968, p.227.

EMENDATIONS: Sarjeant, 1982b, p.46; Brenner, 1988, p.33.

HISTORY: Substitute name for Acanthogonyaulax Sarjeant, 1966b, p.132 (an illegitimate name).

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic senior synonym: Cribroperidinium, according to Poulsen (1996, p.71). Taxonomic junior synonym: Meristaulax Sarjeant, by implication in Brenner (1988, p.35), who included the type of Meristaulax Sarjeant in Acanthaulax.

TYPE: Klement, 1960, pl.5, figs.10-11, as Gonyaulax venusta.


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