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Melosira arctica (`arcticum') Dickie in P.C. Sutherland
Journal of a Voyage in Baffin's Bay and Barrow Straits in the Years 1850-1851 2: cxcvi. 1852. (E)
Type: BM
Type locality: Arctic Ocean: Melville Bay (74 40N)
Collector: Penny's Expedition (vii.1850)

See Gaillonella arctica (Dickie) Ehrenberg 1853
See Lysigonium arcticum (Dickie) Kuntze 1891
[Dickie's publication usually ignored and Gaillonella arctica incorrectly considered original name, transferred to Melosira by Ralfs in Pritchard, Hist. Inf. ed. 4: 819. 1861]

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