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Etymology
Latin species + inquirendus (“to be investigated”)
Noun
species inquirenda f (plural species inquirendae)
- (taxonomy) A species of doubtful identity that needs further investigation.
1902, Arthur Looss, “Trematoden aus Seeschildkröten”, in Pamphlets on Parsitology, volume 202 (in German), page 709:Ueber den andern Grund äussert sich Braun, wie folgt: „Nicht zutreffend ist, dass C. oblonga nicht sicher identificirbar ist; gewiss war diese Art ungenügend beschrieben, also eine Species inquirenda, wie wir deren genug unter den Trematoden haben […]- (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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