Burmalepisma

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Zygentoma
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Ordo: Zygentoma

Familia: Lepismatidae
Subfamilia: Lepismatinae
Genus: †Burmalepisma
Species (1): †B. cretacicum

Name

Burmalepisma Mendes & Poinar, 2008

Gender: neuter, not feminine, following ICZN Article 30, and explicitly clarified in ICZN Opinion 2427.

Type species: Burmalepisma cretacicum Mendes & Poinar, 2008, by monotypy.

Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 2427.

References

Primary references

• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 2018. Opinion 2427 (Case 3704) – Lepisma Linnaeus, 1758 (Insecta, Zygentoma, Lepismatidae): Direction 71 (1957) reversed. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 75(1): 290–294. Online. Reference page. 
• Mendes, L.F. & Poinar, G.O., Jr. 2008. A new fossil silverfish (Zygentoma: Insecta) in Mesozoic Burmese amber. European Journal of Soil Biology 44(5–6): 491–494. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejsobi.2008.07.009 . Reference page.