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Issue: Vol. 4571 No. 2: 26 Mar. 2019
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2019-03-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.2.8
Page range: 277–277
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Correct spelling of a recently described species of Helobdella (Annelida: Clitellata: Hirudinea)

Dept. of Aquaculture and Fish Diseases, Fisheries Faculty, Firat University, 23119 Elazig, Turkey
Institute of Biology, University of Kassel, 34132 Kassel, Heinrich-Plett Str. 40, Germany
Biology Department, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 315 Penn Street, Camden, NJ 08102, USA
Biology Department, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 315 Penn Street, Camden, NJ 08102, USA
Biology Department, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 315 Penn Street, Camden, NJ 08102, USA
Biology Department, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 315 Penn Street, Camden, NJ 08102, USA
Annelida Clitellata Hirudinea

Abstract

In a recently published article (Saglam et al. 2018) the name of a new species of Hirudinea (Annelida, Clitellata) was simultaneously published in three different ways, as Helobdella serendipitious (Saglam et al. 2018: 61, 70, 71, 73), Helobdella serendipitous (ibid.: 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74), and as Helobdella serendipidous (ibid.: 75). Acting as first reviser according to Article 24 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999) here we determine serendipitous as the correct spelling of the species epitheton.

 

References

  1. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature [ICZN] (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 4th Edition. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, xxix + 306 pp.

    Saglam, N., Kutschera, U., Saunders, R., Saidel, W.M., Balombini, K.L.W. & Shain, D. (2018) Phylogenetic and morphological resolution of the Helobdella stagnalis species-complex (Annelida: Clitellata: Hirudinea). Zootaxa, 4403 (1), 61–86.

    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4403.1.3