Calotheca

Genus of choanoflagellates

Calotheca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Class: Choanoflagellatea
Order: Acanthoecida
Family: Acanthoecidae
Genus: Calotheca
H. A. Thomsen and O. Moestrup, 1983
Species[1]
  • Calotheca pallida (Bryant, 1945)
  • Calotheca parvula (Weise, 1908)

Calotheca is the name used for a genus of choanoflagellates in the family Acanthoecidae, though this name is a junior homonym of the name Calotheca Heyden, 1887, and it must be replaced under the rules of the ICZN.[2] The species C. alata is from Indo-Pacific Localities.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Calotheca". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  2. ^ Nomenclator Zoologicus
  3. ^ Electron Microscopical Investigations on Two Loricate Choanoflagellates (Choanoflagellida), Calotheca alata gen. et sp. nov. and Syndetophyllum pulchellum gen. et comb. nov., from Indo-Pacific Localities. H. A. Thomsen and O. Moestrup, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 22 August 1983, doi:10.1098/rspb.1983.0057

External links

Taxon identifiers
Calotheca
  • Wikidata: Q48968395
  • AlgaeBase: 51395
  • BOLD: 434539
  • CoL: 3FYR
  • GBIF: 3236039
  • IRMNG: 1305166
  • NZOR: 463786c1-72fd-4852-a6f0-701f92d50a23
  • WoRMS: 580093


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