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Genus "Heteractis"
Name: "Heteractis" Kützing 1843
Etymology: He.ter.ac’tis. N.L. fem. n. Heteractis
Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Heteractin-), he-ter-AK-tis
Type species: "Heteractis mesenterica" Kützing 1843
Original publication: Kützing FT. Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange. Mit 80 farbig gedruckten Tafeln, gezeichnet und gravirt vom Verfasser. F.A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1843.
Nomenclatural status: not validly published
Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)
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Notes:
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Hateractis"; "Heteraetis".
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🧍 According to Shipunov (2011), this name is a hemihomonym.
Publication:
Shipunov A. The problem of hemihomonyms and the on-line hemihomonyms database (HHDB). Bionomina 2011; 4:65-72.
- 🧍 Komarek and Golubic (1990) emphasize that this name is a pre-starting-point synonym. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status "Heteractis mesenterica" Kützing 1843 not validly published preferred name
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Parent taxon: Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886
Assigned by: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
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Record number: 18048
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