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| Stephanopyxis (C.G. Ehrenberg) C.G. Ehrenberg 1845, pg. 80 | |
| Generitype | T: Pyxidicula aculeata C.G. Ehrenberg |
| Designated by | ? |
| Year Designated | 0 |
| Nomenclatural status | valid |
| Recent revisions | |
| Comments | Automatically typified with the type of the subgenus. Comments: First introduced and described as a subgenus of Pyxidicula in Ehrenberg 1844 (ref. 001185), p. 264 (Pyxidicula subg. Stephanopyxis C.G. Ehrenberg); the species Pyxidicula aculeata is listed (but not described) with (subgenus) Stephanopyxis p. 271. In Ehrenberg 1845 (ref. 000955), Stephanopyxis is treated as a genus p. 80 (a new species Stephanopyxis diadema is described). |
| Published in |
Ehrenberg, C.G. 1845 (ref. 955) Neue Untersuchungen über das kleinste Leben als geologisches Moment Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Vol:1845, 53-87 |