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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (1)

  • Batracomorphus triton Knight, 1983b: 158.

    Holotype; male; 04572c9b-29a8-407c-82f3-741a6120e5b2; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Sumatra: Mt Dempo, 1220 m, C.J. Brooks

Nomenclature references (1)

  • Knight, W.J. (1983b) The leafhopper genus Batracomorphus (Cicadellidae, Iassinae) in the eastern Oriental and Australian regions. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, 47(2), 27–210.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Triton (Greek: Τρίτων), in Greek mythology, a son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, usually depicted as a merman which has the upper body of a human and the tail and fins of a fish

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1001