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Issue: Vol. 5750 No. 4: 22 Jan. 2026
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2026-01-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5750.4.8
Page range: 599-600
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Epimeria potiguarensis nom. nov., a replacement name for Epimeria colemani Souza-Filho, Guedes-Silva & Andrade, 2024 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Epimeriidae), preoccupied by Epimeria (Drakepimeria) colemani d’Udekem d’Acoz & Verheye, 2017

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Museu de Oceanografia Prof. Petrônio Alves Coelho; Laboratório de Carcinologia. Avenida Arquitetura; s/n; Cidade Universitária; 50740-550; Recife; PE; Brazil
Universidade de São Paulo; Museu de Zoologia da USP; Laboratório de Carcinologia. Avenida Nazaré; 481; Ipiranga; 04263-000; São Paulo; SP; Brazil
University of Łódź; Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology. Stefana Banacha 12/16; 90-237; Łódź; Poland
Crustacea Epimeria potiguarensis nomen novum primary homonymy

References

  1. d'Udekem d'Acoz, C. & Verheye, M.L. (2017) Epimeria of the Southern Ocean with notes on their relatives (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Eusiroidea). European Journal of Taxonomy, 359, 1–553.
  2. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.359
  3. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 4th Edition. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, xxix + 306 pp.
  4. Souza-Filho, J.F., Guedes-Silva, E. & Andrade, L.F. (2024) Four new species and two new records of deep-sea Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Potiguar Basin, north-eastern Brazil. Journal of Natural History, 58 (41–44), 1615–1655.
  5. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2374404

How to Cite

Souza-Filho, J.F., Guedes-Silva, E. & Andrade, L.F. (2026) Epimeria potiguarensis nom. nov., a replacement name for Epimeria colemani Souza-Filho, Guedes-Silva & Andrade, 2024 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Epimeriidae), preoccupied by Epimeria (Drakepimeria) colemani d’Udekem d’Acoz & Verheye, 2017. Zootaxa, 5750 (4), 599–600. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5750.4.8