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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Collenia clappii

Name: Collenia clappii Fenton and Fenton 1937

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: clap’pi.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. clappii, probably named in honor of Frederick Gardner Clapp, American geologist

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: kol-LE-ni-a KLAP-pi-i, feminine

Holotype: Figure 1 in Plate 14

Valid publication: Fenton CL, Fenton MA. Belt Series of the North: Stratigraphy, sedimentation, and paleontology. Geological Society of America Bulletin 1937; 48:1873-1970.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Collenia Walcott 1914

Assigned by: Fenton CL, Fenton MA. Belt Series of the North: Stratigraphy, sedimentation, and paleontology. Geological Society of America Bulletin 1937; 48:1873-1970.

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Record number: 52216

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