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Issue: Vol. 3741 No. 3: 28 Nov. 2013
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2013-11-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3741.3.9
Page range: 400–400
Abstract views: 43
PDF downloaded: 12

A replacement name for Macrobrachium aemulum madhusoodani Pillai & Unnikrishnan, 2013, a junior homonym of Macrobrachium madhusoodani Unnikrishnan, Pillai & Jayachandran, 2011 (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) 

Central Agricultural University, Iroisemba, Manipur, India 795004.
Post Graduate Department of Zoology and Research Centre, Mahatma Gandhi College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India 695004
Decapoda Palaemonidae

Abstract

Macrobrachium aemulum madhusoodani Pillai & Unnikrishnan (2013) was recently described based on material from the Neyyar River, Kerala, India as a new subspecies of M. aemulum (Nobili, 1906).  As however, both species and subspecies names are considered part of the species-group for nomenclatorial purposes (ICZN, Art. 45.1), the name is a junior homonym of Macrobrachium madhusoodani Unnikrishnan, Pillai & Jayachandran (2011) and requires a replacement name.