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Melosira laevis (Ehrenberg) Ralfs in Pritchard 1861, p. 818
BasionymGaillonella (Gallionella) laevis Ehrenberg 1854
StatusValid
Published inPritchard, A. 1861 [ref. 001063]. A history of infusoria, living and fossil: arranged according to Die infusionsthierchen of C.G. Ehrenberg; containing colored engravings, illustrative of all the genera, and descriptions of all the species in that work, with several new ones; to which is appended an account of those recently discovered in the chalk formations. xii. Edition IV, revised and enlarged by J.T. Arlidge, W. Archer, J. Ralfs, W.C. Williamson and the author. London, Whittaker and Co., 1861. xiii + 968 pp., 40 pls.
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CollectorAssessment of record accuracylikely accurate
List of nomenclatural synonymsGaillonella (Gallionella) laevis Ehrenberg 1854
Melosira crenulata var. laevis (Ehrenberg) Ralfs in Pritchard 1861
Melosira italica f. laevis (Ehrenberg) Cleve-Euler 1951
Melosira italica var. laevis (Ehrenberg) Ralfs in Pritchard 1861
Melosira italica var. laevis (Ehrenberg) Frenguelli 1933
Lysigonium laeve (Ehrenberg) Kuntze 1891
Melosira italica f. laevis (Ehrenberg) Cleve-Euler 1915