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Taxon: Genus Syngnathus Rafinesque, 1810, nom. illeg. (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  C.S. Rafinesque Schmaltz, 1810, nom. praeocc.
Original name, rank & spelling:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: App. (p. 57: "Gen."). ≡

Attributes

Junior homonym (nom. illeg.: nom. praeocc.) [ICZN] Ref: S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]. Nomencl. Zool.: 10 Jul 2012 ("non L. 1758").
Name placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology [ICZN, 1999: Art. 80.7] Ref: R.V. Melville & J.D.D. Smith (eds.), 1987. Offic. Lists & Indexes Zool.: 174 (Direction 56). ≡

Types

Type, by monotypy: Syngnathus punctatus Rafinesque, 1810 Ref: C.S. Rafinesque Schmaltz, 1810b: 37. [new]

Homonyms

Senior homonym: Syngnathus (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]: 10 Jul 2012.
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