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| Actinella F.W. Lewis 1864, pg. 343 | |
| Generitype | T: Actinella punctata F.W. Lewis 1863 |
| Designated by | ICBN 1956 (ref. 006916), p. 200 |
| Year Designated | 1956 |
| Nomenclatural status | nom. cons. |
| Recent revisions | Kociolek et al. (1997) (ref. 006813) |
| Comments | Originally monotypic. Name conserved (see ICBN 1956, p. 200, ref. 006916). Name conserved vs. Actinella Pers. 1807 (nom. rej.) and Actinella Jussieu (nom. rej.). Originally monotypic. Tibiella Bessey 1899, new name for Lewis's genus, became nomenclaturally superfluous in 1956 when Actinella Lewis was conserved. |
| Published in |
Lewis, F.W. 1864 (ref. 610) On some new and singular intermediate forms of Diatomaceae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol:15, 336-346. |