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Issue: Vol. 3986 No. 2: 16 Jul. 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-07-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.2.9
Page range: 249–250
Abstract views: 41
PDF downloaded: 1

A new name for the deep-sea chiton Leptochiton clarki Sigwart & Sirenko non Berry (Lepidopleurida: Leptochitonidae)

School of Biological Sciences, Marine Laboratory, Queen’s University Belfast, 13 The Strand, Portaferry, BT22 1PF, Northern Ireland, U.K.
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, St. Petersburg, 199034, RUSSIA.
Lepidoptera Solomon Islands sunken wood Leptochiton clarki Leptochiton rogeri n. sp.

Abstract

Recently we described several new species of chitons living in deep water deposits of sunken wood in the southwest Pacific (Sigwart & Sirenko 2012). Among these, one species, Leptochiton clarki Sigwart & Sirenko, 2012, is homonymous with a fossil taxon of the same genus: Leptochiton clarki Berry, 1922. Herein, we replace this homonym with a new name according to International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999: Art. 57.2).