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Issue: Vol. 3244 No. 1: 22 Mar. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-03-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3244.1.3
Page range: 68
Abstract views: 110
PDF downloaded: 32

Amazonella Fouquet et al., 2012 (Anura:Bufonidae) junior homonym of Amazonella Lundblad, 1931 (Acari:Unionicolidae): proposed replacement by Amazophrynella nom. nov.

Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia. Caixa Postal 11.461. CEP 05508–090. São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia. Caixa Postal 11.461. CEP 05508–090. São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia. Caixa Postal 11.461. CEP 05508–090. São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia. Caixa Postal 11.461. CEP 05508–090. São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia. Caixa Postal 11.461. CEP 05508–090. São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia. Caixa Postal 11.461. CEP 05508–090. São Paulo, SP, Brazil
University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720–3140, USA
Department of Biology, The City University of New York, 526 Marshak Science Building, City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA
University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720–3140, USA
Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia. Caixa Postal 11.461. CEP 05508–090. São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Acari Unionicolidae

Abstract

The genus Amazonella Lundblad, 1931 was originally described for an Amazonian species of water mite (Lundblad 1931: 63). Unaware its existence, Fouquet et al. (2012) re-delimited Dendrophryniscus Jiménes de la Espada, 1870 a genus of small Neotropical toads on the basis of molecular and morphological data, and proposed Amazonella as the name for a clade comprising the Amazonian species (Fouquet et al. 2012: 832). Amazonella Fouquet et al., 2012 is therefore a junior homonym of Amazonella Lundblad, 1931.

References

  1. Fouquet, A., Recoder, R., Teixeira Jr., M., Cassimiro, J., Amaro, R.C., Camacho, A., Damasceno, R., Carnaval, A.C., Moritz, C. & Rodrigues, M.T. (2012) Molecular phylogeny and morphometric analyses reveal deep divergence between Amazonia and Atlantic Forest species of Dendrophryniscus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 62, 823–838.

    International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Fourth Edition. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, xxix + 306p.

    Lundblad, O. (1931) Südamerikanische Hydracarinen. Zugleich Revision einiger von E. Daday aus Paraguay beschriebenen Arten. Zoologiska Bidrag fran Uppsala, 13, 1–86.