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Taxon: Genus Oculina Lamarck, 1816 (invertebrate)
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Authorship

Original name Lamarck, 1816. An. s. vert., 2, 283.

Etymology

Latin (subst. masc.) oculus (gen.: oculī), eye. Ref: ICZN, 1999: Art. 30.1.1 (Examples).
Latin (suff.) -īnus, -īna, -īnum (gen.: -īnī, -īnae, -īnī) Ref: ICZN, 1999: Art. 30.1.1 (Examples).

Gender

Feminine Ref: ICZN, 1999. Int. Code Zool. Nomencl. (ed. 4): Art. 30.1.1 (Examples).

Types

Type ofOculinidae (Family) Gray, 1847

Homonyms

Junior homonymOculina (Genus) Kübler & Zwingli, 1866, nom. illeg. Ref: S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]: [19 Dec 2008].
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