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Taxon: Genus Pyrocystis J. Murray ex Haeckel (1890) (protist)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  J. Murray, 1876 ex E. Haeckel, 1890
Unavailable original name:  Murray, J. 1876. Proc. Roy. Soc. London 24 (170): 533.
Original name:  Haeckel, E. 1890. Verlag von Gustav Fischer, Jena: 30 (footnote).
Original rank:  loc. cit.
Original spelling:  loc. cit.
Emended diagnosis (emend.):  Elbrächter & Drebes, 1978.

Types

Type of: Pyrocystaceae (Family) (F. Schütt) Lemmerm. (1899) Ref: R.A. Fensome et al., 1993 [inferred]
Type, by monotypy: Pyrocystis noctiluca Haeckel (1890) Ref: E. Haeckel, 1890: 30 (footnote). [indirect]

Variants

Not validly published name: Pyrocystis (Genus) Murray (1876) Ref: E. Haeckel, 1890: 30 (footnote). [indirect]

Synonyms

Synonymous name (pro parte): Dissodinium (Genus) G.A. Klebs (1916) Ref: F. Gómez, 2003: table II (p. 231).
Synonymous name (pro parte): Gymnodinium (Genus) F. Stein (1878) Ref: F. Gómez, 2003: table II (p. 231).
Including: Murracystis (Genus) Haeckel (1890) Ref: F. Gómez, 2012: table 2 (p. 139).
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