ON THE CURRENT NOMENCLATURAL STATUS OF TETRAHEDRALETES (FOSSILES)

Authors
TRAVERSE A STROTHER PK
Citation
A. Traverse et Pk. Strother, ON THE CURRENT NOMENCLATURAL STATUS OF TETRAHEDRALETES (FOSSILES), Taxon, 43(1), 1994, pp. 71-74
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
Taxon → ACNP
ISSN journal
00400262
Volume
43
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
71 - 74
Database
ISI
SICI code
0040-0262(1994)43:1<71:OTCNSO>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
Two valid and legitimate generic names of Silurian fossil obligate tet rads, Tetrahedraletes and Nodospora, published by Strother & Traverse, are based on type specimens that now are recognized as representing a single genus. Burgess, the first to propose the synonymy formally, se lected Tetrahedraletes as the generic name for the combined genus, and his choice, having priority, must be followed. Gray's call to abandon both generic names is misguided.