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Gyrinus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Gyrinidae

Taxonomy

Gyrinus was named by Geoffroy (1762). It is extant. It is the type genus of Gyrinidae, Gyrininae, Gyrinini.

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Geoffroy (1762), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Müller (1776) and Latreille (1796); to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775) and Fabricius (1798); to Hydrocanthari by Latreille (1802); to Hydrocanthares by Dejean (1821); to Gyrinidae by Nel (1989) and Carpenter (1992); and to Gyrinini by Tamutis et al. (2011) and Gustafson and Miller (2013).

Species

G. aquisextanea, G. confinis, G. marinus (syn. G. praemarinus), G. minutus, G. opacus, G. praeopacus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1762	Gyrinus Geoffroy p. 193
1766	Gyrinus Schaeffer
1767	Gyrinus Linnaeus p. 567
1775	Gyrinus Fabricius p. 234
1776	Gyrinus Müller p. 68
1796	Gyrinus Latreille p. 72
1798	Gyrinus Fabricius p. 65
1802	Gyrinus Latreille p. 75
1821	Gyrinus Dejean p. 20
1989	Gyrinus Nel p. 324
1992	Gyrinus Carpenter
2011	Gyrinus Tamutis et al.
2013	Gyrinus Gustafson and Miller p. 83

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924

Rank	Name	Author
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Adephaga
family	Gyrinidae
subfamily	Gyrininae
tribe	Gyrinini
genus	Gyrinus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Gyrinus Geoffroy 1762

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†Gyrinus aquisextanea Nel 1989

Gyrinus confinis Le Conte 1868

Gyrinus marinus Gyllenhal 1808

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Invalid names: Gyrinus praemarinus Lomnicki 1894 [synonym]

Gyrinus minutus Fabricius 1798

Gyrinus opacus Sahlberg 1819

Gyrinus praeopacus Lomnicki 1894

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available