Stomiosphaera

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STOMIOSPHAERA Wanner, 1940, p.76.  Emendation: Dufour, 1968, p.1947.  Calcareous dinoflagellate genus, originally described as a foraminifer (see Elbrächter et al., 2008, p.1302).  Taxonomic junior synonyms: Orthopithonella, by implication in Reháková and Michalík (1996, p.93), who believed Stomiosphaera to be the senior name — however, Streng et al. (2004, p.482) retained Orthopithonella; Cadosina, according to Bonet (1956, p.447–448) — however, I. Nagy (1966, p.87) proposed the retention of CadosinaFensome and Williams (2004) considered this genus to be not validly published because a type was not designated.  However, Elbrächter et al. (2008, p.1298) implied that this generic name can be considered validly published as it was proposed under the I.C.Z.N.  Thus, we have revised the status of the contained species as appropriate, as well as reconsidered the generic synonymies.  Type: not designated; "type species" — Stomiosphaera moluccana.

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