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Microdinium veligerum

"Microdinium? veligerum" (Deflandre, 1937b, p.81, pl.12 [al. pl.9], fig.9) Davey, 1969a, p.136-137.

EMENDATIONS: Lejeune-Carpentier, 1943, p.B24-B25, as Ceratocorys veligera; Lejeune-Carpentier and Sarjeant, 1983, p.5-6, as Rhiptocorys veligera.

TYPE: Holotype: Deflandre, 1937b, pl.12 (al. pl.9), fig.9; Fensome et al., 1995, fig.1 - p.1885.

HISTORY: NOW: Rhiptocorys. Originally Micrhystridium (Appendix A), subsequently Ceratocorys (Appendix B), thirdly Microdinium, fourthly Microdinium?, fifthly (and now) Rhiptocorys, sixthly Phanerodinium, seventhly Phanerodinium?. Questionable assignment: Stover and Evitt (1978, p.66) as a problematical species.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic junior synonyms: Microdinium irregulare and Ceratocorys (as Microdinium, now Rhiptocorys, both according to Below (1987b, p.56) - however, Lentin and Vozzhennikova (1990, p.112) retained Ceratocorys (as Rhiptocorys) smolenskiensis.

AGE: Senonian.


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