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Calotheca

Calotheca is the name used for a genus of choanoflagellates in the family Acanthoecidae, though this name is a junior homonym of the name Calotheca Heyden, 1887, and it must be replaced under the rules of the ICZN. The species C. alata is from Indo-Pacific Localities.

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Calotheca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Obazoa
Clade: Opisthokonta
Class: Choanoflagellata
Order: Acanthoecida
Family: Acanthoecidae
Genus: Calotheca
H. A. Thomsen and O. Moestrup, 1983
Species1
  • Calotheca pallida (Bryant, 1945)
  • Calotheca parvula (Weise, 1908)

Calotheca is the name used for a genus of choanoflagellates in the family Acanthoecidae, though this name is a junior homonym of the name Calotheca Heyden, 1887, and it must be replaced under the rules of the ICZN.2 The species C. alata is from Indo-Pacific Localities.3

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References

  1. "Calotheca". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  2. Nomenclator Zoologicus
  3. Electron Microscopical Investigations on Two Loricate Choanoflagellates (Choanoflagellida), Calotheca alata gen. et sp. nov. and Syndetophyllum pulchellum gen. et comb. nov., from Indo-Pacific Localities. H. A. Thomsen and O. Moestrup, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 22 August 1983, doi:10.1098/rspb.1983.0057
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