Abstract
The recent unintentional creation of a bryozoan secondary homonym requires a change of name for the species affected. Gontar (2009) established the new monotypic genus Paulina (order Cyclostomata), with type species Paulina taylori, for a small, ramifying uniserial species of Oncousoeciidae from the upper shelf of the Pacific coast of the middle Kurile Islands, Russia. Paulina Gontar, 2009 is preoccupied by Paulina Grigelis, 1977 (Protozoa, Foraminifera). Paulella nom. nov. (gender feminine) is here proposed as a replacement genus, resulting in the new combination Paulella taylori (Gontar, 2009).
References
Gontar, V.I. (2009) New species of Bryozoa Cyclostomata from the northern and middle Kurile Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 313, 41–57.
Grigelis, A.A. (1977) On morphology and classification of Ceratobuliminacea (Foraminifera). Voprosy Mikropaleontologii, 20, 142–156. [In Russian]