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Taxon: Genus †Megalurus Agassiz, 1833, nom. illeg. (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation Agassiz, (1833), nom. praeocc.
Original name, rank & spelling Agassiz, J.L.R. (1833). Poiss. Foss. 2 (1): 13 ("genre. ... Agass.").
Subsequent publication Agassiz, J.L.R. (1844). Poiss. Foss. 2 (2): 145 ("Genre ... Agass.").

Attributes

Junior homonym (nom. illeg.: nom. praeocc.) [ICZN] Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018. Eur. J. Taxon. 466: 57 ("preoccupied by ... Horsfield 1821").

Homonyms

Senior homonymMegalurus (Genus) Horsfield, 1821 Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018: 57.
Junior homonymMegalurus (Subgenus) Thon, 1900, nom. illeg. Ref: S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]: [19 Dec 2008]. [implicit]

Synonyms

Replacement nameSynergus (Genus) Gistel, 1848, nom. illeg. Ref: S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]: [19 Dec 2008].
Replacement nameUrocles (Genus) Jordan, 1919 Ref: S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]: [19 Dec 2008].
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