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Paraphyletic taxon: Kingdom Protozoa Goldfuss, 1818 - protozoa (protozoan)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  (Goldfuss, 1818) R. Owen, 1858, nom. descript.
Original name:  Goldfuss, G.A. 1818. [class].
Subsequent rank (orig. spell.):  Owen, R. 1858. In T.S. Traill (ed.), Encyclopedia Britannica (ed. 8) 17: 92. [unranked (above class) = "kingdom"]. ≡ [implicit]
Subsequent rank (orig. spell.):  Owen, R. 1860. Palæontology: 5; [v] ("Kingdom"). ≡

Attributes

Descriptive name (: nom. descript.) [zool.] Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 29 Dec 2023.

Variants

Different rank: Protozoa ([unranked])
Different rank: Protozoa (Phylum) (Goldfuss, 1818) C.T. von Siebold, 1854
Different rank: Protozoa (Class) G.A. Goldfuss, 1820
Alternative rank: Protozoa (Subkingdom) Goldfuss, 1818 Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1981: table 1 (p. 462). [implicit]
Grade: Protozoa ([unranked]) Goldfuss, 1818

Synonyms

Including: Corticata (Subkingdom) Lankester, 1878
Including: Eozoa (Subkingdom) Cavalier-Smith, 1997
Including: Gymnomyxa (Subkingdom) (Lankester, 1878) Cavalier-Smith, 2002
Including: Neozoa (Subkingdom) Cavalier-Smith, 1993
Including: Protoplasta (Phylum)

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: protozoa
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