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Etymology
Latin genus + inquirendus
Noun
genus inquirendum n (plural genera inquirenda)
- (taxonomy) A genus of doubtful identity that needs further investigation.
1900, Heinrich Georg Bronn, Dr. H.G. Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs (in German), page 1729:Die zweite Section enthält die Gattung Synbothrium Dies., die, wenn auch als Genus inquirendum, beibehalten werden kann; alle übrigen Arten können dem Genus Rhyncobothrius Rud. eingereiht werden […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2006, A. Zullini, V. Peneva, chapter 16, in Eyualem Abebe, István Andrássy, Walter Traunspurger, Freshwater Nematodes: Ecology and Taxonomy (in English), →ISBN:The genus Tectonchus Tsalolikhin, 1974 was not properly described, so we consider it and its four species as genera inquirenda and species inquirenda, respectively.
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