Heteromastix lens (O.F.Müller) H.M.Woodcock 1916
Publication Details
Heteromastix lens (O.F.Müller) H.M.Woodcock 1916: 396
Published in: Woodcock, H.M. (1916). Observations on Coprozoic Flagellates: Together with a Suggestion as to the Significance of the Kinetonucleus in the Binucleata. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences 207(335-347): 395-397, 8 figures, plates 26-28.
Request PDFPublication date: 1 January 1916
Type Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Heteromastix.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Kamera lens (O.F.Müller) D.J.Patterson & Zölffel.
Source of Synonymy
Patterson, D.J. & Larsen, J. (1991). The biology of free-living heterotrophic flagellates. Vol. 45 pp. i-xiii, [1]-505. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Basionym
Monas lens O.F.Müller
Origin of Species Name
Noun (Latin), a lentil; a lens (Smith & Lockwood 1933).
Created: 26 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 06 April 2014
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Nomenclatural note
Not entirely clear according to INA, quoting Woodcock: ""the species with which I have worked may be lens, but I am not certain"; description p. 396, pl. 27: figs. 32-38; pl. 28: fig. 72." - (06 April 2014) - M.D. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 06 April 2014. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 06 June 2025
