Rhiptocorys veligera

*veligera (Deflandre, 1937b, p.81, pl.12 [al. pl.9], fig.9) Lejeune-Carpentier and Sarjeant, 1983, p.5.  Emendations: Lejeune-Carpentier, 1943, p.B24-B25, as Ceratocorys veligera; Lejeune-Carpentier and Sarjeant, 1983, p.5-6, as Rhiptocorys veligera.  Holotype: Deflandre, 1937b, pl.12 (al. pl.9), fig.9; Fensome et al., 1995, fig.1 - p.1885.  Originally Micrhystridium (Appendix A), subsequently Ceratocorys (Appendix B), thirdly Microdinium, fourthly Microdinium?, fifthly (and now) Rhiptocorys, sixthly Phanerodinium, seventhly Phanerodinium?.  Lentin and Williams (1993, p.560) retained this species in Rhiptocorys.  Taxonomic junior synonyms: Microdinium irregulare and Ceratocorys (as Microdinium, now Rhiptocorys) smolenskiensis, both according to Below (1987b, p.56) - however, Lentin and Vozzhennikova (1990, p.112) retained Ceratocorys (as Rhiptocorys) smolenskiensis.  Age: Senonian.

Parent: Rhiptocorys