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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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CADELLA. Zool. A genus of parasitical fossil nematodes found on certain trilobites (1975 A. Lamont in Sc. Jnl. Science I. 199).
[After Henry M. Cadell (1860–1934), of Linlithgow, geologist.]