WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Bruguière, J. G. (1789-1792). <i>Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers</i>, volume 1. Paris: Pancoucke. Pp. i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, <i>Zootaxa</i>, 166: 37; <i>Zootaxa</i>, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006 page(s): 1: xvi [details]
original description
(of Orthoceratites Gesner, 1758 †) Gesner, J. (1758). Tractatus physicus de petrificatis in duas partes distinctus, quarum prior agit de petrificatorum differentiis, & eorum varia origine; altera vero de petrificatorum variis originibus, praecipuarumque telluris mutationum testibus. Haak, Lugduni Batavorum, 136 pp., available online at https://books.google.de/books?id=zQoAAAAAQAAJ page(s): 42-43 [details]
TaxonomyOtheradditional source
Melville, R. V. (1959). Proposed use of the plenary powers to suppress the generic names Orthoceros Brünich, 1771 and Orthocera Modeer, 1789, so as to stabilize the generic name Orthoceras Bruguière, 1789 (Class Cephalopoda, order Nautiloidea) Z.N.(S). 44. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 17: 9-24., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/29565#/summary note: incl. fixation of type species [details]
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