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Typified names:

Acanthotheca Diesign 1835

NOMEN: Acanthotheca Diesign 1835 [C.M. Diesing. Versuch einer monographie der gattung Pentastoma. – Ann. Wien. Mus., 1835, 1 (1)]

ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Diesign 1835): Pentastoma = Linguatula

CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS: 
= Acanthotheci
Siebold 1838

= Maeracara Haeckel 1889
= Linguatonia Haeckel 1896

TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Linguatula/fg (incl. Reighardia, Pentastoma)
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Linguatulida, Linguatulidae, Linguatulina, Linguatuloidea, Linguatula/fg1

MODERN STATUS: the valid, the oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon

COMMENT. There are often used wrong typified names formed from a junior name Pentastoma/fg [f: Pentastomiden Leuckart 1860; g: Pentastoma Rudolphi 1819]: Pentastomata, Pentastomida, Pentastomoidea et al.