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Taxon: Genus †Asterolepis Eichwald, 1840 (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  E. Eichwald, 1840, orth. null. praeval.
Original name & rank:  [von] Eichwald, [C.]E. 1840. Bull. Acad. St. Pétersb. 7 (6-7) (no. 150-151), [20 Apr] 1840: col. 79 ("Astrolepis").
Subsequent spelling:  Eichwald, E. 1840. N. Jahrb. f. Min. 1840: 425. ≡

Attributes

Incorrect subsequent spelling (orth. inval.: orth. null.) [ICZN] Ref: S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]. Nomencl. Zool.: [8 Jul 2012] ("err.").
Incorrect subsequent spelling in prevailing usage (orth. praeval.: orth. null. praeval.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 33.3.1] Ref: Downs et al., 2019. Geodiversitas 41 (19): 682 ("prevailing", "International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Article 33.3.1)"). ≡

Types

Type of: †Asterolepidae (Family) Traquair, 1888 Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018: 27.
Type of: †Asterolepididae (Family) Traquair, 1888 (1856), nom. praeval. Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018: 27. [implicit]
Type of: †Asterolepidiformes (Order) Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018: 27. [inferred]

Variants

Correct spelling: †Astrolepis (Genus) Eichwald, 1840 Ref: S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]: 8 Jul 2012.
Incorrect spelling: †Asserolepis (Genus) Eichwald, 1846, nom. null. Ref: S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]: [19 Dec 2008].
Former spelling: †Astrolepis (Genus) Eichwald, 1840 Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 37. [indirect]

Homonyms

Junior homonym: Asterolepis (Genus) Razowski, 1964, nom. illeg. Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present: 29 Mar 2024.
Junior homonym (unavailable): Asterolepis (Genus) Razowski, 1964, nom. illeg. Ref: S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]: [20 Jun 2013].

Synonyms

Including: †Chelonichthys (Genus) Agassiz, 1844 Ref: Agassiz, 1844: 89. ≡
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