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| Microtheca C.G. Ehrenberg 1838, pg. 164, pl.11/fig.10 | |
| Generitype | T: Microtheca octoceros C.G. Ehrenberg 1838 |
| Designated by | Ehrenberg, C.G.(000288) |
| Year Designated | 1838 |
| Nomenclatural status | valid |
| Recent revisions | |
| Comments | Type by monotypy. Silva in Farr et al. (1979) indicates that "the type species was originally described as a rotifer; the genus was originally referred to the desmids". Listed in SVL with the comments: "probably not a diatom genus". |
| Published in |
Ehrenberg, C.G. 1838 (ref. 288) Die Infusionsthierchen als vollkommene Organismen. Ein Blick in das tiefere organische Leben de Natur Verlag von Leopold Voss, Leipzig pp. 1-xvii, 1-548, pls. 1-64. |