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Published: 2009-06-16
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New names for some bryozoan homonyms

National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Private Bag 14901 Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand
Bryozoa Cheilostomata homonymy nomina nova Harpago Harpagozoon Ijimaia Ijimaiellia Reteporella aurantiacum Reteporella aurantium Reussinella Reussina Euritina arctica

Abstract

Replacement names are proposed for five bryozoan homonyms, affecting four genera and one species. Harpagozoon n. nov. replaces Harpago Gordon, 1989, a junior homonym of Harpago Adams, 1854 (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Ijimaiellia nom. nov. replaces Ijimaia Gordon & d’Hondt, 1997, a junior homonym of Ijimaia Sauter, 1905 (Chordata, Actinopterygii); and Reteporella aurantium nom. nov. replaces Reteporella aurantiaca Gordon, 2009, a secondary homonym of R. aurantiaca (MacGillivray, 1883). Reussinella nom. nov. replaces Reussina Kluge, 1962 (with nominal type species Escharina impressa Reuss, 1846), which is a junior homonym of Reussina Neviani, 1896. This taxon also represents a case of a misidentified type species, renamed as Euritina arctica by Osburn (1950), but a new genus name is needed as the species does not belong to Euritina. Leiosellina nom. nov. replaces Leiosella Canu & Bassler, 1917, a junior homonym of Leiosella Lendenfeld 1889 (Porifera). None of the proposed new generic names is listed in the online version of Nomenclator Zoologicus.

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