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Authorship

SN2000 author citation	:			W.S. Kent, 1870
Original name, rank & spelling	:			Kent, W.S. 1870. Mon. Microsc. J. IV: 245 ("nov. gen."), 252. ("W. S. Kent").

Etymology

Greek (subst. masc.) ἀσκός [askós], a bag.	Ref: W.S. Kent, 1870: 245 (footnote).
Greek (subst. neut.) νῆμᾰ [nêma] (gen.: νήμᾰτος), that which is spun.	Ref: W.S. Kent, 1870: 245 (footnote).

Type of	:	*Askonematinae* (Subfamily) Gray, 1872
Type, by original designation	:	*Askonema setubalense* Saville Kent, 1870