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Issue: Vol. 15 No. 1: 2 July 2019
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2019-07-02
DOI: 10.11646/bionomina.15.1.4
Page range: 55–58
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A new replacement name for Vitta Burt, 1938 (Platyhelminthes, Cestoda, Cyclophyllidea, Dilepididae)

Department of General Biology and Parasitology, Medical University of Warsaw, Chałubińskiego 5, 02-004 Warsaw, Poland Department of Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases, National Institute of Public Health – National Institute of Hygiene, Chocimska 24, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland
Platyhelminthes Cestoda Cyclophyllidea Dilepididae

Abstract

The generic name Vitta has been proposed at least three times for different organisms within the Animal Kingdom. Klein (1753: 19) erected the mollusc genus Vitta (Gastropoda, Neritopsina, Neritiliidae). This name was used by Mörch (1852: 166) in his Catalogus conchyliorum as a nomen nudum, then as a valid name by Adams & Adams (1854: 382–383). Later, a new rhizopod genus Vitta was erected by Folin (1884–1887: 183). Finally, Burt (1938: 21) proposed the name Vitta for a new cestode genus.