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IOC entry for Brachytrichia dalmatica

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Brachytrichia Zanardini

Brachytrichia dalmatica (Ercegovic) Frémy

Kyrtuthrix dalmatica Ercegovic, 1929b: 173, fig. 3 (type locality: middle Dalmatian coast, Croatia).

Brachytrichia dalmatica (Ercegovic) Frémy, 1934: 162.—Frémy, 1941: 21, 28, 29, fig. 1.

INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Djibouti.

Note: Umezaki (1958: 66), noting that the holotype of Kyrtuthrix dalmatica was destroyed in World War II, designated as neotype a specimen from Split, Croatia, collected by Ercegovic in 1957 and placed in Umezaki's herbarium, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Drouet (1973: 178), after examining this specimen, assigned it to Calothrix crustacea Thuret.

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