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Issue: Vol. 3038 No. 1: 22 Sep. 2011
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2011-09-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3038.1.5
Page range: 59–60
Abstract views: 41
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Georgeiella, a new name for the louse genus Hopkinsiella Clay and Meinertzhagen, 1939 (Phthiraptera, Philopteridae), junior homonym of Hopkinsiella Baba, 1938 (Opisthobranchia, Goniodorididae)

Field Museum of Natural History, Zoology Department, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, P.O. Box 467, Wellington, New Zealand
Phthiraptera Philopteridae Opisthobranchia Goniodorididae

Abstract

Clay and Meinertzhagen (1939) described the genus Hopkinsiella to accommodate one new species of louse found on the Kikuyu white-headed wood-hoopoe—Phoeniculus bollei jacksoni (Sharpe, 1890)—of the bird family Phoeniculidae. Tendeiro (1957) described a second species of Hopkinsiella, parasitic on a bird species of the same family. Subsequently, Tendeiro (1961) described one more species and reviewed all the species included in the genus. We have found that the name Hopkinsiella Clay & Meinertzhagen, 1939 is preoccupied by Hopkinsiella Baba, 1938, a genus of nudibranchs – marine gastropod molluscs of the order Opisthobranchia (Baba, 1938).

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