Abstract
It has come to my attention that the name of the new polyclad genus, Aotearoa, described in Holleman (2007), is a homonym of Aotearoa Forster and Platnick (1984), a New Zealand spider genus.
References
Forster, R.R. & Platnick, N.I. (1984) A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with some notes on the limits of the Superfamily Palpimanoides (Arachnida, Ataneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 178,(1), 1–106.
Holleman, J.J. (2007) Some New Zealand Polyclads (Platyhelminthes, Polycladida. Zootaxa, 1560, 1–17.