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Genus Stomiosphaera

"Stomiosphaera" Wanner, 1940, p.76.

EMENDATION: Dufour, 1968, p.1947.

STATUS: Name not validly published: name of "type species" not validly published.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic senior synonym: Orthopithonella, by implication in Reháková and Michalík (1996, p.93), who believed Stomiosphaera to be the senior name.

COMMENTS: Calcareous dinoflagellate genus, originally described as a foraminifer. Taxonomic synonym: Cadosina (name not validly published), according to Bonet (1956, p.447-448), who considered Stomiosphaera to be the senior name - however, I. Nagy (1966, p.87) proposed the retention of Cadosina.

TYPE: not designated; "type species" - Stomiosphaera moluccana (name not validly published).


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